James Carnes and Scott Tucker, two Kansas City-area businessmen ordered by federal judges to pay restitution for duping payday loan customers, donated more than $160,000 to federal candidates and political parties during the past decade, including 17 members of Congress tasked with overseeing payday lenders.
Tucker and his business partners were ordered by a Nevada judge last week to pay $1.2 billion in restitution to customers they deceived into paying exorbitant amounts for small loans.