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\nFormer Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes is fighting back after the state Ethics Commission ordered her to pay $10,000 for ethical violations.<\/p>\n
\nFormer Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes is fighting back after the state Ethics Commission ordered her to pay $10,000 for ethical violations.<\/p>\n
After a two-year investigation, the state Ethics Commission found last month that Alison Lundergan Grimes violated state law when she ordered voter lists to be downloaded and distributed.<\/p>\n
The commission said the information should not have been disclosed. Grimes claimed she was responding to an open records request.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Grimes’ attorneys filed an appeal in Jefferson Circuit Court, asking a judge to reverse the $10,000 penalty, saying the fine itself violated state law.<\/p>\n
“After improperly investigating former Secretary Grimes for half a decade in tandem with a meritless criminal investigation by ‘special prosecutor’ Mark Metcalf — which the Office of the Attorney General ultimately declined to pursue after this Court voiced its significant related concerns — the Commission delayed beyond the applicable statute of limitations, then chose not to conduct an administrative hearing or proffer its own factual evidence to support its time-barred charges,” the filing states. <\/p>\n
Grimes’ attorneys list a number of factors they say are grounds for appeal, including evidence they say was unlawfully obtained, an absence of clear and convincing evidence and a violation of the statute of limitations.
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