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A recent campaign mailer from the Hastings family is signed by Kate Hastings, but is actually from Sen. Michael Hastings' sister, not his ex-wife who shares the same first name.
The accusations surfaced publicly last week in Will County divorce court files unsealed at the request of WBEZ over the repeated objections from lawyers for Hastings, a veteran Democratic lawmaker from the southwest suburbs.