Bunning used campaign money to pay daughter

$138,000 Over Seven Years Legal

SOURCE: Halimah Abdullah // Lexington (KY) Herald Leader

26 Feb 2008 // Over the past seven years, Sen. Jim Bunning has used campaign money to pay his daughter, Amy Towles, more than $138,000 to keep track of his elections' financial paperwork.

That's more than any other senator paid family members for similar work, according to a new report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal government watchdog group.

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