Rep. Deal’s Staffer Returns Payments

Aide Exceeded Limit on Outside Income

• By Paul Singer
• Roll Call Staff
• May 1, 2008, Midnight

Chris Riley, the chief of staff to Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), has returned more than $90,000 that he was paid by the lawmaker’s campaign committee from 2004 to 2007 because it exceeded the outside income limits set under House rules for top Congressional staff.