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The Purchases and BOWLES Supply Appeal Board reversed an order issued last month by division director Philip R. Brooks suspending the InterRoyal Corporation from doing business with the state. The order came after a Norfolk Ledger-Star newspaper article charged that the New York based furniture manufacturing firm paid kick-backs to a former division director in order to secure state sales contracts.
According to the article, the money allegedly was paid to G. Lloyd Nunnally through a Swiss bank account. Nunnally headed the division from 1958 through 1970 and more recently served as a member of the Appeal Board. Both Nunnally and InterRoyal vehemently denied the charge.
The furniture company’s suspension had been recommended to Brooks by Assistant Attorney General Robert P. Kyle who heads an unusual management surveillance team, appointed by the governor, which is overseeing the operations of the division.
The team was appointed after the Division of Purchases and Supply was hit with an avalanche of charges ranging from gross mismanagement to criminal fraud. Although everyone in the Administration denies it,
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