The hits keep on falling from the NC Democratic Party ethics machine:

Former Gov. Mike Easley kept a private e-mail account that he used for state business.

Easley’s former communications director Sherri Johnson testified in a deposition that Easley kept the secret account and used it for state business. Johnson was being deposed as part of a public records lawsuit filed by The N&O, The John Locke Foundation and several other news media outlets over access to e-mail messages.