SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes, legally barred from using his state campaign money for his U.S. Senate bid, instead funneled thousands of those dollars into Chicago's Democratic machine last year - then received donations in similar amounts from the same sources for his Senate campaign, records show.
"It sounds like money laundering," said David Starrett of the reform group Independent Voters of Illinois.
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