Crapo among top 3 senators who pay family for campaigning

Idaho's junior senator paid his wife, Susan, $78,514 between 2001 and 2006.

SOURCE: Erika Bolstad // The Idaho Statesman

9 Mar 2008 // Sen. Mike Crapo is among the top three senators who pay family members to help them campaign, according to a report from a Washington, D.C., ethics watchdog group.

Through his Freedom Fund political action committee and his own campaign re-election committee, Crapo paid his wife, Susan Crapo, $78,514 from 2001 to 2006, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics found.

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