Metro Council member Jim King, a Democratic candidate for mayor, violated campaign-finance laws last year when he gave his daughter $145,000 during her election campaign for District Court, the staff of the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance has found in a preliminary report.
The staff also concluded that “there is reason to believe” that Katie King, who narrowly won the seat in the general election, broke the law in accepting the gifts and later reporting them as personal loans for her campaign.
But the registry staff found the violations didn’t appear to be committed knowingly and recommended that the board refer them for conciliation when it takes up the case Sept. 25.
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