Taff pleads guilty in campaign funds case VIDEO
The Kansas City Star
Former congressional candidate Adam Taff pleaded guilty this morning to charges of misusing campaign funds to obtain a mortgage loan for a Lake Quivira home.
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Taff is a former Navy fighter pilot who ran unsuccessfully in 2002 and 2004 on the Republican ticket for the Kansas 3rd District congressional seat held by Rep. Dennis Moore, a Democrat.
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Myers admitted that Taff withdrew $300,000 from his campaign committee accounts and purchased an official bank check payable to Myers and his wife. Myers admitted that he and Taff then met with a closing agent at a title company and represented the check as a down payment, even though they did not intend to make that down payment.
Taff, with Myers’ consent, then took the check back to the bank and deposited the funds back into his campaign accounts.
Lungstrum earlier denied Taff’s request to dismiss the charges.
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