US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao designated one of her staffers to direct $78 million in federal grants specifically to transportation projects in her husband Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's home state of Kentucky,
according to a Monday report in Politico.
Politico reported that Chao assigned an aide by the name of Todd Inman, also a Kentucky native plugged into the state's political world, to work on securing grants for infrastructure and transportation projects in Kentucky that McConnell expected would benefit him politically.
Multiple local Kentucky and Transportation officials told Politico that Inman not only served as an important liaison between them and Chao who "has her ear 24 hours a day, seven days a week," but Kentucky received far more special attention from the Department than any other state.