http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09050/950289-100.stmAllegheny County Councilman Charles McCullough has been arrested and is awaiting arraignment today on nearly two dozen counts following an investigation last year of his handling of an elderly widow's trust funds.
A county grand jury today handed up a 52-page presentment that alleges Mr. McCullough, an attorney, and his sister, Kathleen A. McCullough, bilked money from the $14.5 million trust fund of an Upper St. Clair widow, Shirley H. Jordan, 90.
The investigation began after an article appeared in the Post-Gazette in April 2007 in which Mrs. Jordan denied that she donated $10,000 to each of four political candidates the year before, according to an affidavit that accompanied the arrests of Mr. McCullough and his sister.
The affidavit said Kathleen McCullough had been paid "the exorbitant rate of $60 per hour to be a companion" to Mrs. Jordan. Ms. McCullough was paid more than $4,500 as Mrs. Jordan's companion, the affidavit said.
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