On Thursday, Ensign'sattorneysaid that the senator's parents gave Doug Hampton, Cynthia Hampton and their twochildrengiftsworth $96,000 in the form of a check. The attorney, Paul Coggins, said that each gift was limited to $12,000 and "complied with tax rules governing gifts."
The disclosure of the April 2008 payment seemed intended to head off growing questions about whether Ensign violated federal law by failing to report what Doug Hampton called a severance package worth more than $25,000 TO his wife Cynthia, who left Ensign's campaign staff on April 30, 2008.http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24748.html#ixzz0KnpXLzRi&D
FOXNews: The plot thickens, and gets increasingly bizarre, in the case of Sen. John Ensign's affair.
The Nevada Republican, through a written statement by his attorney, admitted Thursday that his parents paid the family of his mistress nearly $100,000 last year.
The admission came shortly after Doug Hampton, his mistress' husband, first told a Las Vegas reporter that the senator paid his wife a hefty severance. Hampton also said that Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and others originally had urged Ensign to pay the Hamptons "millions."
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