Your task is to predict the verdict of a claim based on the provided question-answer pair evidence. The possible labels are: 'Supported', 'Refuted', 'Not Enough Evidence', 'Conflicting Evidence/Cherrypicking'. Justify your answer using the provided evidence and select the correct label.

Claim: John Hickenlooper, the former Governor of Colorado accepted donations from Anadarko Petroleum Corp, a oil and gas company involved in a 2017 fatal explosion, in exchange for the company not being penalized.

Q1: Did John Hickenlooper, the former Governor of Colorado, accept donations from Anadarko Petroleum Corp, an oil and gas company involved in a 2017 fatal explosion?
A1: Yes, because Among the biggest donors was the former Anadarko Oil and Gas. The company donated $25,000 to the governor’s office in 2017, just days after a deadly explosion in Firestone was tied to a leaking underground pipeline owned by the company. Over the course of four years, it gave the governor’s office more than $330,000, money for which there is little accounting.

Q2: Had Anadarko Petroleum Corp donated to Hickenlooper’s administration prior to the Firestone accident?
A2: Yes, because A Hickenlooper campaign spokesperson told us the company had already contributed nearly $219,000 to Hickenlooper’s administration prior to the Firestone accident.

Q3: Is there evidence to suggest that the donated money by  Anadarko Petroleum Corp to Hickenlooper’s administration was a form of pay off?
A3: No, because The analysis found no evidence that the donations were connected to official action taken by Hickenlooper’s administration.

Q4: Did experts question whether it was possible that donated money by  Anadarko Petroleum Corp to Hickenlooper’s administration was a form of pay off?
A4: Yes, because Frank Lamonte, Director of the Brechner Center for the Freedom of Information, said he’s never heard of direct donations to a governor’s office without oversight. “Big dollar presents like that are the exact kind of things that ethics laws seek to prohibit and regulate.”

While CBS4 found no evidence of a quid pro quo, Lamonte said the potential is certainly there. Lamonte calls the donations an end-run around campaign finance laws that come with limits and public disclosure, “Even if it’s well-intentioned and there is no influence buying going on, it just raises all sorts of red flags that it could influence the direction of policy and it could influence what legislation is prioritized, it could give, at least if not influence, it could give preferred access to the governor.”

Q5: Could Anadarko officials have been prosecuted by Hickenlooper’s administration?
A5: No, because As for no Anadarko officials being prosecuted, Sharon Jacobs, an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Law, told us that would have been up to the state attorney general at the time — not Hickenlooper.

Q6: How was Anadarko Petroleum Corp prosecuted for the Firestone accident?
A6: The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) today announced it has
approved the $18.25 million penalty against Kerr-McGee, a subsidiary of Occidental
Petroleum, at an Online Special Hearing. The Commission considered COGCC staff’s
Administrative Order by Consent (AOC), as a part of the enforcement process, and heard from
Kerr-McGee and Mrs. Erin Martinez, who lost her husband and brother when her home was
destroyed on April 17, 2017.

Q7: What date was Anadarko Petroleum Corp's fine issued on?
A7: April 13, 2020

Q8: Was Hickenlooper governor on the 13th of April, 2020?
A8: No, because Hickenlooper’s successor, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis

Q9: Did Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper accepted donations in exchange for not penalizing an oil and gas company involved in a fatal home explosion in 2017 ?
A9: A Hickenlooper campaign spokesperson told us the company had already contributed nearly $219,000 to Hickenlooper’s administration prior to the Firestone accident. In April 2020, under Hickenlooper’s successor, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, the COGCC approved a record $18.25 million fine — the largest ever issued by COGCC — against Kerr-McGee, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum, which acquired Anadarko in August 2019. The company was fined for violating four rules, the COGCC said in its press release.But the NRSC pointed to an October 2019 Denver Post article that said some promises Colorado leaders made after the Firestone incident, such as providing a comprehensive, public map of all pipelines, hadn’t been fulfilled.
That may be, but there’s no evidence that contributions from Anadarko had anything to do with it. This claim is false.
user
justification: the company was fined for violating four rules, there is no evidence that any donations accepted by John Hickenlooper was an exchange for not penalising the company. 

verdict: 'Refuted'
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