The son of late Comptroller Judy BaarTopinka has filed a lawsuit accusing his mother's chief of staff of taking campaign funds.
The lawsuit filed by Joseph BaarTopinka accuses Nancy Kimme of taking nearly $89,000 from Topinka's campaign fund and using some or all to buy clothes, travel, and pay off debts.
Kimme denies wrongdoing and says the allegations are reckless. She says she received $25,000 from the campaign fund for work and that nearly $64,000 was transferred in August from one bank with a now-canceled Topinka credit card to another bank with the main campaign account.
Topinka died in December 2014 after she won another four-year term. Her campaign fund had nearly $1 million available as of Jan. 1.
