Billionaire corrupts local sheriff. Favor returns as Paris Hilton is released

June 11, 2007 12:47 pm

PARIS Hilton’s billionaire grandfather donated money to the election campaign of the sheriff who released the 26-year-old American hotel heiress from jail, it has been revealed.

The contribution from William Barron Hilton, 78, co-chairman of the Hilton Hotel chain, to Sheriff Lee Baca’s re-election campaign is revealed in financial records.

A friend of the Hilton family said the temporary release of the heiress last week may have been a “quid pro quo”.

“A member of her family has been a contributor to Baca’s campaign and this may have been payback time,” the friend said.

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