Post by Logan on Mar 21, 2016 4:58:40 GMT -6
Many Mississippi Officials Take From Closed Campaign Accounts, Review Reveals
JACKSON, Miss. — When Amy Tuck, a former lieutenant governor of Mississippi, shut down her campaign committee in the final days of 2013, she took a parting gift: the $158,342 remaining in the account.
Ms. Tuck had already withdrawn more than $103,000 from the account in late 2007 and early 2008, when she was going to work at Mississippi State University as special assistant to the president, initially making $160,000 a year.
She is hardly the only Mississippi official to cash out at the end of her career. An Associated Press review shows that of 99 elected officials who have left office in recent years, as many as 25 may have pocketed more than $1,000 when they closed their campaign accounts.
At least four other former officeholders besides Ms. Tuck — who is now vice president for campus services at Mississippi State — took more than $50,000.
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/us/many-mississippi-officials-take-from-closed-campaign-accounts-review-reveals.html
JACKSON, Miss. — When Amy Tuck, a former lieutenant governor of Mississippi, shut down her campaign committee in the final days of 2013, she took a parting gift: the $158,342 remaining in the account.
Ms. Tuck had already withdrawn more than $103,000 from the account in late 2007 and early 2008, when she was going to work at Mississippi State University as special assistant to the president, initially making $160,000 a year.
She is hardly the only Mississippi official to cash out at the end of her career. An Associated Press review shows that of 99 elected officials who have left office in recent years, as many as 25 may have pocketed more than $1,000 when they closed their campaign accounts.
At least four other former officeholders besides Ms. Tuck — who is now vice president for campus services at Mississippi State — took more than $50,000.
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/us/many-mississippi-officials-take-from-closed-campaign-accounts-review-reveals.html