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Burns campaign funds spent on legal battle |
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Posted: 04/18/07 07:13 PM [ET] |
Conrad Burns, a former Montana senator whose ties to Jack Abramoff reportedly drew scrutiny from federal investigators, reported spending $160,000 in campaign money on legal fees last quarter.
Burns, a Republican, lost his reelection race to Jon Tester, a Democrat. But federal election rules allow money raised for a campaign to be spent on legal fees, if the legal dispute relates to government service.
Records show Friends of Conrad Burns wrote two checks to the firm Powell Goldstein: a $72,347 check on Jan. 3, and another for $88,029 on March 29.
The campaign committee reported spending $188,432 in total the first three months of 2007. It reported $168,831 remaining in cash at the end of the reporting period.
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