Former State Auditor, Claire McCaskill, is Audited

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Earlier this month I noted that Claire McCaskill (D-MO) had been caught self-dealing by using tax payer money to lease a private jet from a company that she owns. Now things have taken a turn for the worse for Missouri's senior senator. Mark Hemingway in The Weekly Standard notes that Sen. McCaskill Failed to Pay $287,000 in Property Taxes on the Aircraft:

Ah Senators, they're just like you and me! Who among us hasn't forgotten to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes on our private aircraft...

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