Larry Craig, the former Idaho senator arrested in a 2007 airport sex sting, violated federal election law when he used hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to pay his legal bills, a federal judge in Washington ruled on Sept. 30. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered Craig to pay $242,525 to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
The ruling wasn’t a complete win for the Federal Election Commission, which had asked the judge to order Craig and his campaign committee to pay more than $350,000. The commission sued Craig in 2012, claiming he violated the Federal Election Campaign Act by using campaign money to pay legal fees in connection with an unsuccessful attempt to withdraw the guilty plea he entered following his airport arrest. Craig defended the use of campaign money as related to his official duties as a senator.
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