While the totals run into the thousands, the exact haul is impossible to confirm from the details in the filings alone, though contributions at the time from nearby residents run into the tens of thousands of dollars.
The money from the Beshear fundraiser was transferred to the campaign on May 11.
That is unethical at least, possibly illegal-and not something Andy Beshear has ever done,” Floyd said in a statement, arguing that “Cameron’s actions need to be investigated by law enforcement.” “Daniel Cameron launched an investigation of an addiction treatment center and then went to the executives of that center to ask for campaign cash. Reached for comment, Beshear spokesperson Alex Floyd said that the contrast between the two candidates’ handling of the Edgewater contributions underscores ethical concerns over Cameron. Edgewater’s outside counsel, Mike Denbow, confirmed the Beshear fundraiser at Elam’s house but declined further comment. The Beshear fundraiser appears to have been a much broader effort than Edgewater’s support for Cameron, who received donations from six employees.Ī Cameron spokesperson didn’t reply to a comment request for this article.
The contributions came from top company officials, including Elam, and totaled $6,900, according to Kentucky campaign finance records. (Beshear’s office is not involved in the probe.) The fundraiser talks stopped that same month, but Edgewater employees went ahead with the donations.Ĭameron, however, did not recuse from that investigation until after his office received a public records request in May for all of his recent recusals-four months after he contacted the company, and two months after receiving the first of the donations. His office subpoenaed Edgewater in March, the same month Cameron had planned a fundraiser with the company. The Daily Beast previously reported that Cameron directly solicited donations from Edgewater officials in January-while his attorney general’s office was investigating the company over concerns about its billing practices. The funds came from the Appalachian Regional Commission, a partnership between the federal government and 13 state governments, to which Beshear was named co-chair in January.ĪRC had initially appropriated the money in September 2022, before Beshear was co-chair, though he was serving on the commission alongside a dozen other governors, including the commission’s Republican leader at the time, then-Maryland Gov. The grant was awarded to Raven Cares, a sober living housing nonprofit that Edegwater owner John David Elam created last year, Internal Revenue Service records show. The contributions came from a fundraiser that the owner of the company, the addiction support network Edgewater Recovery Centers, held at his home on April 24.īeshear personally attended the fundraiser, social media posts show, hours after presenting Edgewater’s owner with a $500,000 grant check at the grand opening of a new nonprofit office in the town of Morehead. Andy Beshear, a development that could complicate their high-profile battle for the state’s most powerful office. The company at the center of a burgeoning campaign finance scandal involving Daniel Cameron-the Kentucky attorney general and GOP governor nominee-also raised thousands of dollars for his Democratic rival, Gov.
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