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- ↑ Kinston.com: It's official: Bell wins District 10 over LaRoque
- ↑ WRAL: NC lawmaker charged with stealing money from federal program
- ↑ Rep. LaRoque resigns from House Archived 2012-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ state Rep. Stephen LaRoque convicted Published: June 7, 2013] Archived December 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Stephen LaRoque, Republican Who Hired Unemployed Workers To Clean His Yard, Under Federal Indictment, Posted: 07/31/2012
- ↑ Laroque retrial order
- ↑ "Stephen LaRoque serves time, released from federal prison". WCTI. 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
