No, he was an elected official in the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT! What about HILLARY CLINTON?! You can bet your *ss she got money to pay her legal bills (& GOD only knows what else) the same way Sarah Palin is doing.
This is getting ridiculous! The leftist bunch of crooks need to give it a rest if they want to have the least bit of credibility left!
Yes, I'm sure she did, and I know that her husband did. But, they were subject to federal election's regulations and federal law. Some states have virtually no regulation or reporting requirements for legal defense funds of elected officials. Alaska does. And, it appears that Alaska law is not very well written, and somewhat ambiguous and perhaps even contradictory with respect to legal defense funds.
But, from my reading of the relevant statutes, I don't think she violated any regulations as they are written for the establishment of LDFs.
What is true, however, is that at the federal level, it would be against the law to use funds that were raised for the express intent of campaign contributions to be used to pay a candidates legal bills when defending personal or ethical charges. Campaign contributions cannot be used to pay criminal defense attorneys - only attorneys that work on campaign related legal issues - like recounts, challenges, personal injury lawsuits where the campaign is a named defendant and a few other instances.
This is why it would be illegal for the GOP or the McCain camp to pay or reimburse Palin for her ethics charges she faced or faces with respect to her role as governor of Alaska.