Former Lt. Gov. Steve Henry has agreed to pay a $10,000 fine and to stop raising money to repay what’s left of more than $1 million in loans he made to his 2007 gubernatorial campaign as a settlement of charges leveled against him by the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance.
That now clears the way for a special prosecutor to decide if he will seek criminal charges against Henry in connection with his gubernatorial campaign and a federal fundraising account that Henry said was exploring a 2008 race for the U.S. Senate.
The registry voted Friday to accept an agreement negotiated by the registry staff and Henry's lawyer.
The registry had previously found that Henry illegally accepted contributions greater than state law allows from six people, inaccurately reported the rental value of three computers as an in-kind contribution, gave incomplete descriptions of donors and accepted contributions from six people who laundered money from an employee of an eastern Kentucky road contractor.