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McConnell’s Staff Raking in Six-Figure Sum in His Absence

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In the seven weeks that former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been absent from the upper chamber, his staff has continued to earn tens of thousands of dollars. The Kentucky senator’s six highest-paid staffers earned a combined $173,200 pre-tax in the past 50 days that he has been missing from Capitol Hill, a Daily Beast analysis can reveal. When accounting for the rest of McConnell’s office, which has about 40 staffers including low-level employees, the Daily Beast calculated that his entire staff received around $485,800 pre-tax in the last 50 days that their boss has been missing. Read more at The Daily Beast.

First report: Fake Detectives Confront McConnell’s Staff on Missing Senator — thedailybeast.com, 10d