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AUGUST 26, 2010

Rep Darryl Rouson's financial woes

Last year, State Rep. Darryl Rouson reported nearly $280,000 in income. Yet the St. Petersburg lawyer also has considerable debts — among them, the loan on a Chicago house that has been in foreclosure.

Rouson said he bought the house in 2005 so his daughter and stepdaughter would have a place to live while they were working on their master's degrees at Chicago's Roosevelt University. Though the women were supposed to make the payments after they graduated, both moved out and left him with a house worth far less than the $138,000 he now owes on it, Rouson said.

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