Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett’s household checking account shows deposits that match undisclosed checks his wife wrote to herself in 2010 against his mayoral campaign fund.
On one statement, those deposits add up to more than 70 percent of all the money deposited that month into the Burchetts’ joint account, which subsequently was used to pay for mortgages, utilities, insurance, gas, credit cards and personal purchases.
Allison Burchett, who is seeking a divorce from the mayor, met with a News Sentinel reporter and editors to respond to her husband’s statement that he was unaware that she had written checks to herself from the Elect Burchett mayoral fund that were not revealed on campaign disclosure statements as required by law.
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