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The firm sought to coerce banks that underwrite high-yield state and local government debt deals from doing business with Preston Hollow Capital, the Dallas-based lender alleged in a lawsuit.

The state, after multiple rating downgrades and facing budget strife, declining revenue and a pension funding dispute, plans a GO new-money and refunding sale.

Smaller not-for-profit hospitals and systems lack the access to taxable debt markets enjoyed by bigger systems.