Palin to reimburse Alaska for kids’ trips

McClatchy Newspapers

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has agreed to reimburse the state nearly $7,000 for the costs of nine trips for her children. An agreement announced Tuesday settles an ethics complaint filed in October.

The charges that Palin has agreed to reimburse include the cost of her daughter Piper flying on a state plane to the start of the Iron Dog snowmachine race in 2008, and airfare and one meal for daughter Bristol to accompany Palin in October 2007 to New York for a women’s leadership conference, according to the settlement.

The settlement was signed by Palin and Anchorage lawyer Tim Petumenos, who was hired by the state Personnel Board to investigate the complaint.