Treg Taylor accepted $69,000 in travel-related items final yr as Alaska’s legal professional normal

Former Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor accepted $69,000 in travel-related items final yr and did not disclose them as required by regulation, based on a assessment by the Daily News. The journeys included flights in 2025 along with his household to Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Italy.

Taylor is working for governor however was quickly kicked off the poll earlier this month after the state marketing campaign finance watchdog company really useful he be eliminated for failing to reveal the names of his rental tenants as required of candidates by regulation.

Public data obtained by the Daily News present that Taylor additionally didn’t report back to the Alaska Public Offices Commission a sequence of journeys funded by two corporation-sponsored legal professional normal associations.

Taylor, who served as legal professional normal till he resigned in August of final yr, accepted simply over $50,000 in items from the Attorney General Alliance, a corporation that Taylor chaired final yr. Separately, Taylor accepted practically $19,000 in items from the Republican Attorneys General Association to attend the inauguration of President Donald Trump, play in golf tournaments and attend conferences in Texas, North Carolina and Hawaii.

The journeys came about within the first seven months of 2025, earlier than Taylor resigned to launch his bid for governor. According to his calendar, Taylor took 26 days of private go away for the corporation-sponsored journeys, amounting to roughly one in each 5 working days within the months main as much as his resignation.

Alaska regulation requires candidates and public officers to reveal all items price over $250 on a type often called the Public Official Financial Disclosure. The regulation is meant to discourage public officers from performing on non-public pursuits whereas in workplace, and to guarantee the general public that officers are freed from the affect of undisclosed non-public pursuits.

However, in disclosure types submitted earlier this yr and masking his 2025 revenue, Taylor and spouse — who briefly deliberate to run for lieutenant governor — didn’t embody particulars on the gifted journey they acquired.

Taylor stated in an interview that he determined to not embody the knowledge on the recommendation of an legal professional and accountant working for him.

In the disclosure type he submitted final yr, Taylor included data on greater than $40,000 in travel-related items he acquired in 2024 from the Attorney General Alliance and the Republican Attorneys General Association, together with for journeys to France and South Africa. But Taylor stated this week that his marketing campaign advisors informed him that was not wanted.

“I didn’t make this decision. It was a decision of the experts,” stated Taylor. “They had the opinion that it wasn’t necessary. They had the opinion that I was overly disclosing.”

Taylor didn’t disclose the title of the legal professional advising him.

Taylor was already reporting his sponsored journey in separate ethics disclosures required beneath a separate state regulation that calls on members of the manager department to reveal items that might current a battle of curiosity. However, these disclosures are not often made public, whereas candidates’ monetary statements are posted on-line for voters to assessment.

‘Work closely together’

Attorneys normal across the nation have for years confronted scrutiny for taking lavish journeys sponsored by firms, together with firms that might turn out to be the topic of litigation.

As chair of the Attorney General Alliance, Taylor helped orchestrate an August 2025 convention for the group in Girdwood. The final day of that convention was additionally Taylor’s final day as Alaska’s legal professional normal.

His management of the group has turn out to be a speaking level in Taylor’s marketing campaign. Taylor says that the truth that he was elected to steer the alliance suggests he labored properly with each its Democratic and Republican members. In one candidate discussion board this month, Taylor referred to the alliance as a “bipartisan coalition” of attorneys, although the alliance has no formal governmental function.

The journeys current alternatives for lobbyists and company pursuits to realize entry to prime attorneys, and for the attorneys to boost funds for political causes. In conjunction with the alliance convention in Girdwood, Taylor headlined a Girdwood fundraiser through which a political motion committee supporting Taylor’s gubernatorial marketing campaign requested for $100,000 in change for a night within the firm of Taylor and different Republican attorneys normal.

Taylor stated this week that the sponsored journey helped him collaborate with colleagues throughout the nation in a sequence of lawsuits, together with ones towards pharmaceutical firms.

“Time after time, you’ll see my name on a litigation filing with multiple other attorneys general. That doesn’t happen in a vacuum. That happens because you work closely together,” Taylor stated.

Taylor additionally stated his relationships with different attorneys normal supported his litigation towards the administration of former President Joe Biden over useful resource growth choices.

Collaboration with different states “saved Alaska millions and millions of dollars,” stated Taylor, who repeatedly requested Alaska lawmakers throughout his tenure to extend his funds for suing the federal authorities.

Taylor didn’t deny that the journeys gave lobbyists for company pursuits entry to him and different attorneys normal, however he stated that outdoors of such conferences, he made an effort to fulfill with anybody who sought his time.

“As the attorney general, I had an open-door policy. You wanted a meeting with me, I would make time for a meeting. It might not happen immediately, but we would put it on the calendar and we’d schedule it when it was appropriate. And so, anyone that wanted access with me had it. They didn’t have to go to a conference to get it,” he stated.

2025 journeys

Taylor’s packed 2025 journey calendar started with a January journey to Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Republican Attorneys General Association, or RAGA, which paid for each Taylor and his spouse to attend President Donald Trump’s inauguration. RAGA covered $3,500 in airfare for the couple and $900 for a lodge, for a four-night journey. Taylor reported taking in the future of private go away for the journey.

Per week later, RAGA paid $2,372, together with $1,600 for airfare, $600 for a lodge, $122 for meals and a $50 shirt. Taylor didn’t disclose the vacation spot of the RAGA assembly, nevertheless it seems to be the affiliation’s winter retreat in Austin, Texas. Taylor took three days of private go away for the assembly.

In March, RAGA paid $3,327 for Taylor to attend a gathering. RAGA paid $750 for airfare, $500 for golf-related bills, $1,200 for a lodge keep, $407 for meals, $270 for a golf journey bag and $200 for a sweater and golf balls. Taylor didn’t report the journey’s location, nevertheless it seems to be the RAGA spring golf retreat, which came about in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Taylor took three days of private go away.

In April, RAGA gifted Taylor $2,130 to attend an vitality summit. The present included $1,000 for airfare, $900 for a lodge, $80 for meals and $150 to enter a golf match. Taylor took two days of private go away. He didn’t report the journey’s location, nevertheless it seems to be in Houston, Texas.

Later that month, the Attorney General Alliance paid $22,643 for Taylor and his spouse to journey to Rome. The journey included $14,378 in airfare, $5,236 for a lodge keep, $2,040 in meals, $490 in floor transportation and $500 for excursions. Taylor took 5 days of private go away for the journey.

In May, the Attorney General Alliance paid $6,487 for Taylor and his household to journey to Honolulu, Hawaii, together with $2,028 in airfare, $4,289 for a lodge and $170 for meals. Tylor reported extending the journey due to a $4,529 gift from RAGA, which coated $4,229 for a lodge and $300 in meals to attend a gathering that came about in Oahu. Taylor reported 4 days of private go away for the Hawaii journey.

In June, the Attorney General Alliance paid $21,101 for Taylor and his household to journey to the U.S. Virgin Islands. The present included $15,000 in airfare, $3,950 for inns, $961 for meals, $540 for floor transportation and a $650 registration price. Taylor took 5 days of private go away.

In July, RAGA gifted him $2,401, together with $600 for airfare, $900 for lodging, $300 in meals and $600 in “fees.” Taylor didn’t report the vacation spot of the journey, nevertheless it seems to align with the RAGA Victory Fund Golf Retreat in Pebble Beach, California. Taylor took three days of private go away for the journey.

Taylor included the journeys to Hawaii and the U.S. Virgin Islands in an annual govt journey summary, however not the journeys to Italy or different locations within the U.S.

Taylor didn’t reply to an inventory of questions concerning the particular particulars of the journeys from the Daily News.

According to ethics disclosures filed by Taylor, he accepted much more in travel-related items within the first seven months of 2025 than he did in all of 2024, when he reported simply over $48,000 in travel-related items.

His 2024 journey included $24,300 for a visit to Normandy for him and his household sponsored by the Attorney General Alliance, and a $7,200 journey to Israel from the America-Israel Friendship League. In 2023, Taylor reported receiving simply over $20,000 for him and his spouse to journey to South Africa for an Attorney General Alliance-sponsored delegation.

Daily News and ProfessionalPublica reporter Kyle Hopkins contributed to this story.