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Indiana Attorney General Back Under Microscope
Monday, December 23, 2019

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is still waiting to see the outcome of a professional misconduct complaint involving his alleged drunken groping of four women and if that were not enough to be on his mind, the embattled Republican is facing scrutiny over a string of financial decisions he’s made since taking office.

After he was sworn in as state government’s top lawyer in 2017, Hill asked for a raise and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to renovate his Statehouse office, including adding new furniture and reclaimed chandeliers.

It has recently come out that Hill has not spend much time at that downtown Indianapolis office, as he instead has been using taxpayer dollars on a satellite office in the northern Indiana city of Elkhart, where he lives. That unusual maneuver allows him to count much of his mileage back and forth to Indianapolis as a business expense.

No other Indiana state officeholder has a second office elsewhere, and one round-trip between Elkhart and Indianapolis is about 320 miles (514 kilometers). The revelation that Hill has an Elkhart office emerged during a recent disciplinary hearing on the allegations from a state lawmaker and three legislative staffers that Hill groped them at an Indianapolis bar during a March 2018 party marking the end of that year’s legislative session.



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