McMaster alleged to have broken state law

In 2006, the Attorney General’s Office brought in two attorneys to help sue Eli Lilly. The two gentlemen later donated to Atty. Gen. Henry McMaster‘s campaign. According to a 1991 law, people who receive no-bid contracts from the state cannot donate to the campaign of the person who hired them.

Lilly’s counsel filed a motion to have the attorneys removed from the case, citing this as the reason. On Tuesday, the judge in the case tossed the motion by saying no law was violated. However, that doesn’t necessarily exonerate McMaster.

“McMaster should probably start tallying up that kind of money and see how he’s going to give it all back,” State Ethics Commission legal counsel Cathy Hazelwood said to the Associated Press. “When you figure it out, you make the correction.”