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The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission voted Monday to investigate five complaints involving travel and gifts to former Gov. John Hickenlooper while passing on three others, Colorado Politics reports.
The investigation involves travel Hickenlooper made between September 2017 and September 2018. The complaint was filed by former Republican Speaker of the House Frank McNulty and his Public Trust Institute. You can read a copy of the complaint here.
Colorado Politics said the commission also postponed a move by Hickenlooper to dismiss the complaint in its entirety until the conclusion of its investigation.
Amendment 41, a 2006 state constitutional amendment, bans gifts to elected state officials in exchange for services. For other freebies, a strict gift limit of $59 applies, with certain exceptions, to state elected officials.
The PTI complaint focused on:
The complaint also raises questions about Hickenlooper’s redacted details of private travel from an Aspen Institute event in August, and September travel from Montreal airport.
The commission dismissed parts of the complaint where Hickenlooper could show credit card receipts, including travel and hotel costs for the Turin and Montreal trips. It also chose not to consider travel further back than a year before the complaint was filed.
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