You are by now accustomed to quite a bit of snark and kidding around here on The Blog, my Dear Readers, but that headline is as far as the fun goes on this one — because what is contained herein, I take quite seriously.

Apparently attorney and Republican candidate for Attorney General, Jacob Hafter, this morning testified in court that I misquoted him in a story I wrote a few weeks back.  You can read about Hafter’s court appearance here in a follow-up story written by Las Vegas Review Journal and Las Vegas Legal News reporter Doug McMurdo.

The original NNB story containing the remarks in question is here.

For the record:

Jacob Hafter said what I reported he said:  that a source inside the state bar had told him that an anonymous complaint had been filed against the AG and that an inquiry was underway into her conduct as related to the health care lawsuit.

Hafter made his statements about the state bar and the Attorney General on an “on the record” conference call with three other attorneys and a number of bloggers and journalists, some of whom have since confirmed his statements (either from memory and/or from their notes from the call) as reported by NNB.

I find it notable that Hafter raised no question whatsoever about the accuracy of what I had written until after he realized the bar was going to conduct an inquiry into his conduct. And I know he read my story soon after it was posted on April 7, because we spoke about it and then continued to correspond in the days that followed.

Hafter did both email and call me on April 13 after he found out that he was himself the subject of a bar inquiry (and NNB wrote a story about that here). At that time he said he believed I may have misquoted him and asked me to go back and check my notes. I informed Mr. Hafter that I had written the story from my notes to begin with, adding that I still clearly remembered what he had said, in part because I had been so interested in the news that there was an anonymous complaint that had, according to him, led to a pending bar inquiry into the conduct of the state Attorney General — and that he thought her actions rose to the level of a misdemeanor offense.

However, I did re-check my notes after speaking with Hafter and was and am confident that what I wrote was accurate.