SAN FRANCISCO -- The Fair Political Practices Commission is assessing a state complaint into California's Insurance Commissioner. It's in response to a 7 On Your Side investigation exposing at least a dozen of Ricardo Lara's international trips on taxpayers' dime -- all while missing some key state insurance meetings.

For more than nine months, we've requested information about 48 of Commissioner Lara's trips. However, the department has only identified a direct business purpose for seven of those trips, three of which included vague descriptions. Due to incomplete records, it's unclear how many of these trips were taxpayer funded. Receipts show expenses for at least 13 pricey trips were on taxpayers' dime.

Furthermore, records for travel expenses to at least a dozen international desti

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