As she runs for the New Orleans City Council , State Rep. Delisha Boyd and a group supporting her campaign have paid more than $39,000 in campaign funds to a company she owns with her daughter, state records show.

The Boyd campaign and a pro-Boyd political action committee said in public financial reports that those payments were made to a different company. But in interviews last week, both the campaign and the PAC acknowledged that the firm they had listed does not exist, and that the payments instead went to a real estate company owned by Boyd and her daughter, Kristen Boyd.

The payments flowed to the pair's firm as Boyd faced a pending foreclosure on her English Turn home, records show. The home is set for a sheriff’s sale in November.

The expenses appear to run afoul of state

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