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Rokita still earning money as consultant, report finds
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana s new attorney general is being paid by private businesses for consulting work, including $25,000 a year for advising a Connecticut pharmaceutical company, according to a newspaper report.
Republican Todd Rokita outlined work with several companies during 2020 in a financial disclosure report filed Wednesday with the state ethics commission. Rokita s filing acknowledges being paid by these companies, but his office declined to say how much.
“We have provided all of the information required to be in compliance with the law,” Rokita spokeswoman Molly Craft told the Indianapolis Star. He faces no allegations of illegality.
Whom does Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita work for? It s difficult to tell.
The answer, obviously, should be Hoosiers. But the state s top law enforcement officer has done little to inspire trust that the interests of Indiana residents are his primary concern.
Rokita, a former Republican congressman and secretary of state, has been in office two months and already his tenure has brought bickering with a social media outlet and repeated unfounded claims of election fraud. We ve also learned he s been padding his taxpayer-funded $107,000 annual salary with side jobs at private companies he previously had not made public.
A financial disclosure form filed this week with the Indiana inspector general s office shows outside interests in three companies: business accelerator Acel360, transportation and logistics firm Merchandise Warehouse and Sonnet BioTherapeutics, a biotechnology company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The form lists Rokita as pharmaceutical development direc
Attorney General Todd Rokita is being paid by private businesses for consulting work, including $25,000 a year for advising a Connecticut-based pharmaceutical company, according to a newspaper report.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana’s new attorney general is being paid by private businesses for consulting work, including $25,000 a year for advising a Connecticut-based pharmaceutical company, according to a newspaper report. Republican Todd Rokita outlined work with several companies during 2020 in a financial disclosure report filed Wednesday with the state ethics commission. Rokita’s filing acknowledges being paid by these companies, but his.