FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Lt. Gov. Steve Henry did not violate ethics rules when he used state employees to help stage his lavish wedding last year to Miss America Heather French, an ethics commission said in a report released Monday.
Dozens of state employees helped put together the wedding last October. But the Executive Branch Ethics Commission said it found no evidence that the employees were coerced into helping or did so on state time.
Nevertheless, Henry should have been more forthright in stressing to the employees the need to make a "clear distinction between their work for the commonwealth and their work on your wedding," the commission said.