Taff indict­ed for mis­use of cam­paign con­tri­bu­tions | LJWorld.com:

Adam Taff, a two-time Repub­li­can can­di­date for Con­gress, has been indict­ed in fed­er­al court on charges of con­vert­ing polit­i­cal cam­paign con­tri­bu­tions for per­son­al use and wire fraud.

U.S. Atty. Eric Mel­gren said that in Decem­ber 2003 — the year between his two failed cam­paigns — Taff agreed to buy a Lake Quivi­ra home from John Myers, Lea­wood, founder and chair­man of Myers Nation­al Mort­gage Com­pa­ny. While apply­ing for a mort­gage, Taff claimed among his assets two bank accounts, total­ing $311,000, that actu­al­ly belonged to his cam­paign for the 3rd Dis­trict con­gres­sion­al seat.

Accord­ing to Mel­gren, what fol­lowed was a com­pli­cat­ed finan­cial trans­ac­tion on Feb. 10, 2004, in which Taff drew on $175,000 in cam­paign funds for a $300,000 bank check made out to Myers.

This is the man who near­ly rep­re­sent­ed Kansas in the House.

The indict­ment makes fas­ci­nat­ing bed­time read­ing. I won­der if Taff cooked this up all on his own.