Some of the reporting may also violate Oklahoma campaign finance rules, according to research done by the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit and nonpartisan group. All of the payments were made when Pruitt was a candidate for attorney general or after he had been first elected to the office in 2010. Some of Pruitt's reimbursements were for "officeholder expenses" -- meaning items needed for his role as attorney general -- after he was elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. The office of current Attorney General Mike Hunter told CNN that around the same time, the AG's office was required to expand and hire more staff. One Republican source said Pruitt would sometimes leave the AG's office to work from the campaign office in the same building.

Source: CNN May 03, 2018 21:33 UTC