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."
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