Bob Corker blames 'technical errors' for failure to report millions in income

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WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Bob Corker says "technical errors" by his former accounting firm resulted in him failing to properly disclose millions of dollars in income from real estate and other investments since he entered the Senate nearly nine years ago.

The Chattanooga Republican filed a series of amendments to his financial disclosure statements late Friday to correct the omissions and sent a letter to the secretary of the Senate acknowledging the errors.

"I am extremely disappointed in the filing errors that were made in earlier financial disclosure reports, and after completing a full, third-party review, we have corrected this oversight," the senator said in a statement released by his office.

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