State Rep. Delisha Boyd mounted a defense Friday following news reports of the New Orleans City Council candidate’s financial struggles and allegations that she paid a firm she owned with her daughter for campaign work.

Boyd has retained Gray Sexton, a longtime attorney for the Louisiana Board of Ethics, to review her campaign finances.

Sexton will “review all campaign finance filings and provide any needed guidance going forward in order to ensure that her campaign is operating within both the spirit and the letter of the law,” Boyd’s campaign said in a prepared statement Friday.

The statement followed reports by The Times-Picayune and Gambit this week on Boyd’s campaign and personal finances. The Times-Picayune detailed how, according to state records, Boyd’s campaign and a politic

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