The return of ‘Air Claire’ McCaskill

Published August 22, 2017 9:20pm ET



Air Claire” is back in business.

During the 2012 election cycle, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., sold her private plane after it was revealed she and her husband failed to pay $320,000 in back taxes on the $2 million aircraft. McCaskill also reimbursed the federal Treasury $88,000 in March of 2011 after Politico reported she paid for nearly 90 flights on the plane with taxpayer money.

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