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Kentucky GOP Star’s Cash Scandal Expands to His Democratic Rival<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <p>The company at the center of a burgeoning <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kentucky-gop-star-daniel-cameron-offers-a-tortured-defense-in-edgewater-cash-scandal">campaign finance scandal</a> involving Daniel Cameron—the Kentucky attorney general and GOP governor nominee—also raised thousands of dollars for his Democratic rival, Gov. Andy Beshear, a development that could complicate their high-profile battle for the state’s most powerful office.</p> <p>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. </p> <p>Beshear personally attended the fundraiser, social media posts show, hours after <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=199148206211531&set=pcb.199148932878125">presenting Edgewater’s owner</a> with a $500,000 grant check at the grand opening of a new nonprofit office in the town of Morehead.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kentucky-gop-star-daniel-camerons-cash-scandal-expands-to-gov-andy-beshear-his-dem-rival">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty

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. Andy Beshear, a development that could complicate their high-profile battle for the state’s most powerful office.

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.

Beshear 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.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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