Nation IN BRIEF : ALABAMA : Governor’s Checks Fail to Halt Inquiry
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Gov. Guy Hunt’s $9,724 in payments to the state will not stop a state ethics panel’s investigation of his use of state airplanes to go to out-of-state churches, where he preached and received donations. Hunt’s checks equal the amount he said he received for preaching at Primitive Baptist churches from Virginia to California. Taxpayers who filed the complaints that prompted the Alabama Ethics Commission’s investigation said the payments do not negate the fact he accepted the money on tax-funded trips.
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