Prosecutor To Examine Possible Campaign Violations

• {Kentucky}...Friday, a committee of four employees of the attorney general's office independently chose Jim Crawford, the commonwealth's attorney in Carrollton, as a special prosecutor to examine possible violations of Kentucky's campaign-finance laws by Sullivan University, which urged employees at a gathering this month to defeat Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway. Sullivan University executives asked more than 100 employees at a Louisville meeting to vote for and give campaign money to Todd P'Pool, the Republican nominee for attorney general in the November 8th election. A Sullivan subsidiary, Spencerian College, is one of several for-profit colleges Conway is investigating for possibly defrauding students or manipulating government-backed tuition assistance programs. Kentucky campaign-finance laws make it a felony for employers to "coerce or direct any employee to vote for any political party or candidate." Grover Potts Jr., attorney for Sullivan University, says the school did nothing illegal.