{"id":12937,"date":"2017-05-30T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/kentucky-governors-home-purchase-drawing-scrutiny\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T15:59:00","slug":"kentucky-governors-home-purchase-drawing-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/kentucky-governors-home-purchase-drawing-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Governor&#8217;s Home Purchase Drawing Scrutiny"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12937","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"The chairman of Common Cause Kentucky is asking the state&rsquo;s Executive Ethics Commission to investigate whether Gov. Matt Bevin&rsquo;s purchase of a mansion in a wealthy Louisville suburb earlier this year violated Kentucky&rsquo;s ethics laws.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":[149,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p><p>The chairman of Common Cause Kentucky is asking the state&rsquo;s Executive Ethics Commission to investigate whether Gov. Matt Bevin&rsquo;s purchase of a mansion in a wealthy Louisville suburb earlier this year violated Kentucky&rsquo;s ethics laws.<\/p><p>Richard Beliles <a href=\"http:\/\/ftpcontent4.worldnow.com\/wave\/pdf\/BevinEthicsComplaint.pdf\">filed his complaint last week<\/a>. It centers on Bevin&rsquo;s $1.6 million purchase of &ldquo;Anchorage Place,&rdquo; an historic home on a 10-acre tract. The property was assessed at $3 million in April but its value for tax purposes was lowered this month to $2.57 million.<\/p><p>The governor has acknowledged creating a limited liability corporation to handle the purchase, a tactic that kept his name out of the transfer. The state has spent nearly $40,000 on security improvements to the property and Bevin and his family live there rather than in the Governor&rsquo;s Mansion on the state capitol grounds in Frankfort.<\/p><p>Bevin has been tightlipped about the purchase. The prior owner, Neil Ramsey, has been a major contributor to Bevin and the state Republican Party, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/2017\/05\/26\/ethics-complaint-filed-over-gov-matt-bevins-anchorage-home\/348419001\/\">the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper reported<\/a> earlier this month that shortly before selling the house he invested $300,000 in a company partially owned by the governor. The investment was made through a state government economic development program that provided Ramsey with a $120,000 tax break, the newspaper said.<\/p><p>Bevin also appointed Ramsey last year to serve as a director of the state employees&rsquo; retirement system.<\/p><p>\"Somebody needs to do something to get them to answer some questions that they don't seem to want to answer&hellip;\"&nbsp; Beliles told the Courier-Journal. &nbsp;\"Actually, I hope the governor and others come forward and give good answers and I get embarrassed for filing this.&rdquo;<\/p><p>###<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kentucky Governor&#8217;s Home Purchase Drawing Scrutiny - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/kentucky-governors-home-purchase-drawing-scrutiny\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kentucky Governor&#8217;s Home Purchase Drawing Scrutiny\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/kentucky-governors-home-purchase-drawing-scrutiny\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/kentucky-governors-home-purchase-drawing-scrutiny\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/kentucky-governors-home-purchase-drawing-scrutiny\/\",\"name\":\"Kentucky Governor&#8217;s Home Purchase Drawing Scrutiny - 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