LAS VEGAS (AP) - U.S. Sen. John Ensign has set up a defense fund to pay legal bills stemming from government investigations of an extramarital affair he made public a year ago.
Documents setting up the Ensign Legal Expense Trust Fund were filed Friday in the Senate.
The Nevada Republican reports the money will pay legal expenses stemming from investigations by the Senate Ethics Committee and the Department of Justice.
He's already spent several hundred thousand dollars.
The FBI and Senate Ethics Committee are investigating whether Ensign improperly helped Doug Hampton find work as a lobbyist.
Ensign acknowledged June 16, 2009, that he had an affair with Hampton's wife, Cynthia Hampton, in 2008.
Ensign is married. His parents also paid the Hamptons $96,000. That money was described as a gift.
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