• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Another former employee of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Annette Bosworth is accusing the Sioux Falls physician of not paying fully for past work, adding to the allegations that have plagued Bosworth's campaign and prompted the state attorney general to investigate.
• Leann Batiz, who worked as a certified nurse practitioner at Bosworth's Sioux Falls clinic, said she moved from Pierre to Sioux Falls last June to take a job at the clinic as a certified nurse practitioner with a promised annual salary of $80,000.
• "After a few weeks of receiving $10 less an hour than I was paid as an RN, I started to have to beg for my paycheck every two weeks and she always 'negotiated' a lesser amount than I was owed," Batiz wrote in a letter to state Rep. Steve Hickey, a Sioux Falls pastor, who asked South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley to look into the accusations from her and other employees. Batiz declined to comment beyond the letter, which was provided to The Associated Press by Hickey.
• Jackley on Tuesday announced he would investigate several nominating petitions submitted by U.S. Senate candidates, including that of Bosworth. She is one of five Republicans seeking the GOP nomination in the June 3 primary for the seat being vacated by retiring Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson.
• Bosworth told The Associated Press she received calls from two supporters Wednesday saying they were interviewed by Department of Criminal Investigation officers asking questions about their signatures.
• "The intimidation this is causing is real," she said.
• Bosworth said she could not comment on Batiz's allegation.
• Batiz is the latest of several former employees who accused Bosworth of shortchanging them on compensation.
• Ethan Crisp, who worked as a staffer for Bosworth's campaign from September through January, said he is owed $2,000 in back wages for his work, a debt reflected in Bosworth's quarterly campaign report to the Federal Election Commission.
• Bosworth said Crisp's claim is being contested.
• Two former employees of Bosworth's Christian mission-based health care nonprofit Preventive Health Strategies -- executive director Mathia Rall and project manager Tonya Montgomery -- sued Bosworth in late 2012 for thousands of dollars

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