Attorney General Troy King painted a large bulls eye on himself during a radio interview aired in February, when King pronounced that his campaign is not accepting money from gambling interests.
Following that declaration; Luther Strange who wants King's job ordered members of his campaign to do some digging.
"When he (King) made that commitment it was incumbent on us to go back and see if he had taken any. And we were surprised to find that it was almost $200,000 that we could trace, and possibly up to $350,000."
Strange has placed the findings on his website and is calling on King to return money accepted indirectly from gambling interests through political action committees.
But King speaking Thursday on 105.5's The Steve and Leah Show deny's any knowledge of gambling dollars contributed directly or indirectly to his campaign.
"We don't take gambling money and people assure you that it's not gambling money. I don't know what more you can do. You go through the filings, you look through the paperwork to make sure... it is very very difficult to track money through the PAC system in Alabama."
But according to records on file with the Alabama Secretary of State provided by the Strange campaign and verified by CBS 42 King did accept PAC money that had recently seen significant contributions from gambling interests, mainly by Milton McGregor.
According to State records King received $2,000 dollars from "Enviro PAC" and $2,500 from TEC PAC on January 6th.
Then another $5,000 was accepted from TOC PAC on January 11th.
All three PAC's received a total of $37,000 from Milton McGregor owned dog tracks in Macon and Jefferson Counties on December 30th 2009.
Those contributions make up 60% of the total contributions to Enviro PAC, 70% of the contributions to TEC PAC and and 68% of donations collected by the TOC PAC.
But King maintains that he's unaware of these donations.
"We have done our due diligence before we took it, we've not solicited it from gambling interests and when we've been able to identify that there's the appearance that there might be a source we have sent it back. And, I don't know what more you can do."
On December 29th King returned $10,000 to Talladega PAC and $1,000 to JDC PAC after learning that contributions to those PAC's had come from the Porch Band of Creek Indians and Ronnie Gilley Enterprises.
The Poarch Creek Indians operate Windcreek Casino in Atmore and Ronnie Gilley Enterprises operates Country Crossings resort in Dothan.
