US Senator Claire McCaskill has returned the $88,000 in taxpayer money that she spent on flights aboard a private plane, but that is not making the scandal go away. The Republican Party in Missouri has filed a formal ethics complaint against McCaskill, who is a Democrat.
The Senator's private plane use was exposed by a newspaper investigation, which found that she spent nearly $76,000 in public money over the last 4 years to fly on a charter plane that she co-owns with her husband and other investors. The Senator denies wrongdoing, saying that neither she nor her husband made money from using the aircraft which was mostly used for Missouri travel. But Republicans say they have evidence that the flights broke official rules, including the fact that one of the flights in 2007 was for a purely political purpose, which violates Senate ethics rules.
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