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Post by Logan on May 4, 2016 21:30:04 GMT -6
FRANKFORT, Ky. - Attorney General Andy Beshear said Wednesday he will file state criminal charges against former top deputy Tim Longmeyer, who last month pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge. "Last week my office started gathering information to prepare to charge Tim Longmeyer with state crimes," Beshear said at an impromptu news conference following an unrelated hearing in the civil lawsuit challenging Gov. Matt Bevin's cuts to higher education funding. "There is no question that the crimes that he has pled guilty to on the federal level mean that he has broken state law." Beshear said, "The Office of Attorney General does not tolerate corruption and we do our job. We're going to charge anyone across the commonwealth who engages in corruption regardless of where they live or work, even if they used to work right down the hall." But the spokesman for the Republican Party of Kentucky later questioned how Beshear can conduct an "unbiased and impartial investigation" into a man with whom he was "so intimately linked." Read more: www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/04/andy-beshear-says-hell-charge-tim-longmeyer/83921756/
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