West Virginia Ethics Commission issues public reprimands for former Logan County senator

Thursday, the West Virginia Ethics Commission announced that they will be imposing fines against former state senator Arthur Kirkendoll.

He is accused of entering into an oral contract in 2013 with the Logan County Commission to provide consulting services through his firm K&K Consulting.

In disclosures filed with the Ethics Commission in 2014, 2015 and 2016, Kirkendoll said that he did not have a contract for services to a county governmental agency.

However according to the ethics commission, those statements were false due to a contract between K&K Consulting and the Logan County Commission. Although he reported income from K&K Consulting for the relevant years, he failed to indicate as required that the income was related to a government entity.

The West Virginia Ethics Commission says K&K Consulting has received approximately $2,500 per month in consulting fees from the Logan County Commission from January 2013 to the present.

Two other people also received public reprimands as part of settlement agreements; Joseph R. Thorpe, former Mayor of West Union and Tammy Porter, a former member of the West Union Town Council. Porter was also ordered to pay a fine of $250.

In addition to the public reprimand, the Commission ordered Kirkendoll to pay a $500 fine.