UPDATE: At a press conference Friday afternoon, East Ridge Mayor Brent Lambert said he was going to release the tapes on Monday at the community center in East Ridge.
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ORIGINAL STORY: The Chattanooga Convention and Visitors Bureau denied any role in the recent extortion indictment of a Hamilton County commissioner who has been critical of the marketing organization.
“Regarding the District 8 commission race, the CVB is not and has not been associated with the recent investigation and indictment,” President Barry White wrote in a statement Thursday. “No volunteer board member or CVB employee has participated or acted on behalf of the organization.”
Not so fast, said District 8 Commissioner Tim Boyd, who pointed out today that four men who were listed on the host committee for a fundraiser for East Ridge Mayor Brent Lambert also served in January on the CVB search committee that picked a new president.