Craddick’s pay, insurance for grown daughter breaks state law, critic says
By Jennifer Peebles | Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
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State House Speaker Tom Craddick — who may or may not have that post much longer, depending on who you ask — has paid his 30-something lawyer daughter $625,000 in salary from his campaign account over 6 years and has her on his state insurance plan. A Democratic attorney from Houston says that’s against the law.
John Cobarruvias has filed a complaint against Craddick with the state Ethics Commission, The (Austin) American-Statesman reports:
“He needs to give up one or the other,” Cobarruvias said Tuesday of Craddick paying his daughter with supporters’ donations and the state-paid health insurance.
Craddick’s spokeswoman told the newspaper that the complaint was “groundless.”
Ethics complaint against House Speaker Tom Craddick
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