Todd Palin Repaid for Trial -- Present for Hacking Case, Did Not Testify

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KNOXVILLE - The government paid nearly $2,500 for Sarah Palin's husband to come to the trial of a Tennessee college student from Germantown who hacked into her e-mail - even though Todd Palin never testified, court records show.

In all, the government paid more than $29,000 to fly members of the Palin family and other witnesses to Knoxville, send a prosecutor to Alaska for research and pay other travel expenses, according to the Department of Justice records obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act. Air travel totaled about $18,600, and hotel bills amounted to nearly $3,300.

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Todd Palin Repaid for Trial -- Present for Hacking Case, Did Not Testify

The thousands of dollars spent by prosecutors helped them win a conviction on one felony and one misdemeano...

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