DOCUMENTS: THAD COCHRAN LISTED AIDE’S DC HOUSE AS ADDRESS

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Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) repeatedly listed a Washington, D.C. house owned by his executive assistant as his address on a series of official documents in recent years, including several of his statements of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission.

Cochran owns a house he has described in documents as a “cabin” in Oxford, Mississippi, which his campaign said is his primary residence. But his opponent, state senator Chris McDaniel, said the documents listing a D.C. address illustrate the six-term incumbent has grown apart from the state he represents in Congress.

Additionally, documents signed by Cochran in 2006 and 2010 indicate the cabin is under a “second home rider,” a legal designation that it is his second home. Cochran owns only the Oxford cabin, and the president of the bank that issued the mortgage, which shares connections to Cochran’s family, said in an April 30 letter the designation was an error on the part of the bank.

Beginning in 2002, Cochran listed his address on official forms as being in Washington, D.C.

In an amended statement of candidacy to the FEC in 2002, Cochran listed an Alexandria house he sold in 2003 as his address.

In two amended filings of his statement of candidacy in 2008, Cochran listed his address as a basement apartment in the stately, Captiol Hill rowhouse his executive assistant, Kay Webber, owns and lives in.

Cochran’s campaign said he pays Webber, pictured above at with Cochran at a black-tie dinner at the Kennedy Center in 2010, rent at market rates to live in the apartment, which has its own separate entrance.

In other documents, like a “certificate of trust” filed in Mississippi in 2008, Cochran listed the house itself as his address.

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