Don Carrington of Carolina Journal reports:
Sen. Kay Hagan’s husband and son created a solar energy contracting company in August 2010, and then, using $250,644 in federal stimulus grant funds, her husband hired that same company to install solar panels at a building he owns.
This is probably not illegal. And, certainly, it is not unusual. They play an inside game in Washington and the insiders always win.
Which explains, in part, why Ms. Hagan wants to keep her job.
According to Politico:
… the Hagan campaign said the senator did not help her husband win the federal funding and disputed any suggestion they have profited off the law. Once she learned of her husband’s dealings, Hagan never involved herself in his efforts to obtain the stimulus grants, her campaign said. She consulted with veteran Democratic attorney Marc Elias over the matter, according to spokeswoman Sadie Weiner.
Vastly reassuring to know that the senator spoke to someone who is not merely an attorney but a “veteran Democratic attorney.”
Who will doubtless “advise” that all is perfectly legal and copacetic.
And, probably, it is. It isn’t what is illegal that is the problem. It’s what is legal.
