Hamilton County district attorney candidate Coty Wamp on Wednesday suggested incumbent Neal Pinkston may have used campaign funds to hire a private investigator to look into her amid a heated primary election race.
The Republican’s comments during a news conference came a day after charges were dismissed in a neighborhood dispute in Soddy-Daisy in which Pinkston, also a Republican, claimed Wamp tampered with a witness and obstructed justice.
“I would assume it was a private investigation toward me,” Wamp said of the expenditure. “If it was a private investigation toward someone else, we’d have an even bigger problem.”
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Wamp cited Pinkston’s campaign finance report released Monday, which shows that Pinkston’s campaign paid $750 to Private Investigators of Bradley County.