AG wants ex-NARAL NY leader to repay thousands

ALBANY, N.Y. - (AP) -- The state attorney general's office has accused the former leader of a prominent abortion-rights group of spending charitable funds on shopping sprees, a Hamptons vacation rental, fine dining, high-end hotels and other personal luxuries.

The civil complaint filed Thursday in Manhattan follows 54-year-old Kelli Conlin's guilty plea a year ago to falsifying business records, a felony. Her criminal case was to close without jail time or probation if she paid $75,000 in restitution to NARAL Pro-Choice New York and its affiliated foundation that she led from 1992 through 2010.

However, David Nachman, enforcement section chief of the attorney general's Charities Bureau, said that Conlin's spending amounted to "hundreds of thousands of dollars in improper benefits."

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is requesting she repay all of it, with interest, and reimburse its own legal and investigative costs.

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not good.