In audio posted at Policy Watch from an August townhall in Kinston, Tillis says, “I have my staff looking at” the LaRoque story.

“What I’m trying to do is get my facts straight, beginning with confirming your information, talking with the federal agencies that are involved, and we’ll continue that process,” he told NCPW’s Sarah Ovaska.

“If you’re talking about legislative ethics, it’s not clear to me that’s it’s even within the purview,” he went on. “That’s a question I’ve asked everybody to look at. You know, I’m a partner for PriceWaterhouseCooper, so I’m familiar with audit compliance issues. So we’re just going through this process as we would with anybody.”

Tillis said he needed to independently confirm the facts in Ovaska’s report. Ovaska asked for a timeframe. “I know it took you a month and half, two months. I hope to do it in far less than that,” Tillis said.

Almost three months to the day later, Tillis spokesman Jordan Shaw couldn’t say any conclusions had been arrived at.

“[Tillis] said that he was gathering information and would handle the matter appropriately. Our office has gathered information (which, for the most part, has been press reports or blog reports from Policy Watch),” Shaw said in an email today.

http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/blogpost/10395801/

LaRoque lawyers up.