Virginia’s attorney general says he plans to give away campaign donations he received from a charity director who is under investigation in Virginia and at least three other states, says The Washington Post.

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II announced Wednesday that he will donate $55,000 given to his campaign by Bobby Thompson, a Florida man who founded the U.S. Navy Veterans Association, to veterans’ charities in Virginia.

The campaign gifts had become a sticky political issue for Mr. Cuccinelli. The U.S. Navy Veterans Association has come under fire for its controversial fund-raising practices, and law-enforcement officials have complained that they cannot locate many of the officers and employees the charity names in its official documents.

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