The judge presiding over the FEC’s lawsuit against former Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) for using campaign contributions to pay for his legal defense in that 2007 gay sex sting in the Minneapolis airport doesn’t sound like she’s buying the argument that this was related to Craig’s official duties:
[U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman] Jackson pointed out a letter Craig’s lawyers wrote to the Senate Ethics Committee in 2007 describing Craig’s arrest and conviction as “purely personal conduct unrelated to the performance of official Senate duties.”“I’m supposed to ignore that?” she asked.
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