Ever since former state Sen. Wayne Bryant was indicted last year, federal prosecutors have been saying that he directed millions of dollars to a public university where he was given a job, and where he performed almost no work in exchange for his pay and credit to his existing public pension.

This afternoon, the budget guru for the Office of Legislative Services, which each year helps shepherd the budget into law, explained how that could have happened.

The most direct link to Bryant was in a 2003 memo, shown in court, from the former dean of the School of Osteopathic Medicine. Bryant had been given a job at the school a few months before the e-mail was written.

The memo, sent to the senator, suggested language for inserting an $800,000 appropriation into the budget for a children’s support institute at the school.

The suggested language was included in the budget almost verbatim, testified David Rosen, with the non-partisan Office of Legislative Services.

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The political corruption trial resumes on Monday.

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