Byline: PETER WEHRWEIN Staff writer
A Washington County official who accepted Christmas presents from indicted incinerator developer Robert Barber said "at the time, I never gave it any consideration."
The official, Joseph Rota, who was chairman of the Washington County Board of Supervisors when Barber's project got some key approvals, also said Thursday that he considered a free trip to Belgium in November 1984 to look at burn plants there part of his job as a public official.
"It was just another responsibility of being chairman, of being on the solid waste committee, that really should have been done," said Rota.
Rota also said the …
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