Legal Fees

(Fox News) - Federal Election Commission records indicate Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig has used $23,000 in campaign funds to pay for a top lawyer to make his case before the Senate Ethics Committee. Craig's office tells The Politico newspaper that the senator will use his campaign committee funds —which total about $475,000 — to help pay for his criminal defense as well.

Craig pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct following a men's restroom sex sting at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul airport last summer. Taking campaign funds for personal use is against the law. But Craig will try to link his legal fight in Minnesota to his work as a senator.