
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, December 9, 1993                   TAG: 9312090049
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-15   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: AUSTIN, TEXAS                                LENGTH: Short

SENATOR INDICTED AGAIN ON ETHICS CHARGES

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison was re-indicted Wednesday on ethics charges stemming from her 2 1/2-year tenure as state treasurer.

"Same charges, same indictments," Assistant Travis County District Attorney Steve McCleery said.

Hutchison, a 50-year-old Republican, previously was indicted in September on four felony counts and one misdemeanor charge.

She was accused of using Treasury employees to perform personal and political chores on state time and of attempting to cover up the activity by destroying computer archive tapes containing the employees' work files.

The charges were dropped Oct. 26 after Hutchison's lawyers discovered that a grand juror on the previous panel had a pending theft charge, making him ineligible to serve.

County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, a Democrat, took the case to a second grand jury, which also re-indicted two former aides to Hutchison.

by CNB