State integrity news for Kentucky, from the Louisville Courier-Journal:

A long-awaited state report by Auditor Adam Edelen found “a toxic culture of entitlement and self-dealing at Kentucky taxpayers’ expense” within the Department of Agriculture under Farmer, a former basketball standout at Clay County High School and the University of Kentucky.

“The law makes no distinction between icons and the rest of us, and neither do I,” Edelen said at a news conference where the audit was released. “The report paints a clear picture of an administration that had no qualms about treating taxpayer resources as its own.”

Read the rest of the story at the Louisville Courier-Journal.