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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Fri May 26, 2017, 09:00 PM May 2017

Complaint raises questions about Kentucky governor, mansion

Source: Associated Press

Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press
Updated 5:03 pm, Friday, May 26, 2017


FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The head of a Kentucky government watchdog group said Friday he's seeking an investigation into Gov. Matt Bevin's connection to a Louisville-area mansion that sold for nearly a million dollars below market value.

Richard Beliles, chairman of Common Cause Kentucky, said he filed a complaint with the state's Executive Branch Ethics Commission. It stems from questions regarding the mansion's sale and reports that the Republican governor's family has taken up residence there.

Beliles is asking whether that chain of events involving the governor and one of his backers amounts to improper gifts under the ethics code for state officials.

"I'm hoping that this will get us some answers eventually," Beliles, who filed the complaint as an individual citizen, said in an interview. "Some of this appears to be gifts, as far as the definition under the rules."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Complaint-raises-questions-about-Kentucky-11175841.php

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Complaint raises questions about Kentucky governor, mansion (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2017 OP
Detergent and sunshine bucolic_frolic May 2017 #1
Dirty sweet heart deal kyburbonkid May 2017 #2

bucolic_frolic

(42,678 posts)
1. Detergent and sunshine
Fri May 26, 2017, 09:09 PM
May 2017

Sweetheart deals have been going on a long time. Competitive bidding
not always as competitive as they sound, depreciated assets sold to
developers, that kind of thing.

kyburbonkid

(251 posts)
2. Dirty sweet heart deal
Sat May 27, 2017, 01:26 PM
May 2017

Must be nice to buy a $3million house for $1million from a political friend that you just appointed to chair a board. Typical of the republicans in power. Corruption is their middle name,

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