Zell Miller Returns Money to State of Georgia ($156,668)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050720/ap_on_re_us/brf_miller_s_money

Zell Miller said Wednesday he has paid $156,668 to the state to resolve questions about money he kept from an entertainment allowance he received when he was governor. Miller, who retired from the U.S. Senate earlier this year, said he obeyed the law "by the strictest standards," but returned $112,956 plus interest to erase any doubts.

At issue is the $40,000 annual allowance Georgia governors receive for entertaining at the executive mansion. Atlanta's WSB-TV reported that Miller had kept and reported as income thousands of dollars that he did not spend from that allowance when he was governor from 1991 to 1999.

Miller cited a 1969 attorney general's opinion saying such allowances are part of a state official's gross income. Keeping the excess is legal, as long as taxes are paid on the amount, he said.

"It was legally mine," he said. "But rather than let people think Zell Miller has some taxpayers' money, I sent the whole thing back to them."

If I could take back only 1 vote I ever cast in my life, the vote for him to be U.S. Senator would be it.

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rocknation

yeah yeah yeah.. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

he needs to dueL over this. :mad:

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As the article states it was not a crime, but it looks shady. Best thing to do is return the money (even if he is not required to do so)...

man steals that much then gives it back must be an honest man.

Why don't he also stop calling himself a Democrat. He gives Democrats a bad name.

Now if he'd just give back a proportional share of the deficit caused by the Bush Tax Cut, which he voted for, then we could call it square.

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didn't take the money in the first place. Only Zell.
He now has nailed the "crazy old coot" character actor role he's playing for the media. Every tic is in place.
Good job, Zell.

Would have been fun, if he hadn't given in so quick. Damn.