Hall To Face No Ethics Consequences

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...House Speaker Greg Stumbo says State Representative Keith Hall, D-Phelps, will face no consequences for his recent ethics sanctions when the 2012 General Assembly convenes Tuesday. In October, the Legislative Ethics Commission publicly reprimanded Hall and fined him $2,000 for appropriating state money for Mountain Water District, a Pike County sewer project from which B.M.M. Inc., one of  Hall's companies, took more than $171,000 in no-bid contracts. In a plea deal, Hall denied guilt but agreed that enough evidence existed to make a case against him. It was the strongest ethics penalty handed down to a Kentucky state lawmaker in more than a decade.