Corruption news for Kentucky, from the Louisville-Courier Journal:

Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer acknowledged Thursday that two weeks after hiring his girlfriend for a $5,000-a-month job he also hired one of her friends for a $24,000-a-year position at a commodity distribution center in Louisville.Farmer said he hired the friend, Patti Apperson, only after his personnel and budget office vetted her and told him that she was qualified for the job.

According to Apperson’s personnel file, she was hired on Nov. 16, eight days after the general election, in which Farmer was the losing candidate for lieutenant governor and two days before The Courier-Journal reported that Farmer, who is going through a divorce, had hired his girlfriend, Stephanie Sandmann.

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