New Hampshire governor Maggie Hassan to return lawyers’ donations
New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan said Sunday she will return campaign donations from partners of a Boston law firm, following a report published in the Boston Globe that revealed the firm had given the partners more than $1 million in apparent reimbursements for contributions.
The investigation by the Globe Spotlight team and the Center for Responsive Politics found that three partners of Thornton Law Firm and one of the partner’s wives donated nearly $1.6 million to Democratic Party fund-raising committees and politicians from 2010 to 2014.
During the same period, the partners received $1.4 million in “bonuses,” according to the report, published online Saturday and in Sunday’s newspaper. More than 280 contributions matched bonuses that were paid within 10 days.
In a statement Sunday, a spokesman for Hassan — a Democrat who is in the midst of a race for US Senate — said the campaign was unaware of the “practices inside this firm.”
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