In the ever-expanding Ky. AFL-CIO scandal, an inquest was ordered into the death of the group’s bookkeeper Donna Bayless. On Sep. 19, her body was found, with a pistol nearby. Ky. State Police originally said suicide was the apparent cause of death. But the Anderson County Coroner’s Mar. 15 inquest announcement means that the death may have resulted from another cause. Bayless and her husband, Morgan, the Ky. AFL-CIO’s ex-political director, were among several AFL-CIO officials suspended amid embezzlement allegations. Also, records were destroyed by an apparent arson at the Ky. AFL-CIO office, and records were stolen by an apparent burglary. [Courier-Journal 3/16/99]
