WASHINGTON AP – A former top aide to Sen. Thad Cochran now implicated in a lobbying scandal got paid more than $20,000 by the Mississippi Republican after leaving his office and starting another high-paid government job at the state’s public broadcasting agency.
Ann Copland left Cochran’s office last spring after working there for three decades. She went on the payroll of Mississippi Public Broadcasting on March 24, 2008, at a salary of $92,000. But Copland continued to collect her roughly $140,000 annual salary from Cochran’s office through May 9 – an overlap of nearly two months.
