FRANKFORT - The woman suing Gov. Paul Patton for sexual harassment gave investigators the name of a person in Mr. Patton's office who allegedly tipped her before inspectors came to her state-regulated nursing home, her lawyer said Tuesday.

        The attorney, Fred Radolovich, would not give the name to reporters. His client, Tina Conner, did not speak to reporters as she left a meeting with federal and state investigators. Before the four-hour meeting, Ms. Conner said she had been given limited federal immunity.

        Ms. Conner claims that she and Mr. Patton had a two-year affair, during which her businesses got assistance from his administration. Besides a nursing home at Clinton, she owned a construction company the state certified as a “disadvantaged business enterprise,” making it eligible for preferential treatment for state contracts.

        The nursing home, Birchtree Healthcare, is now in bankruptcy. It lost its Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement eligibility and its state certification in July after a devastating series of inspections.

        Ms. Conner claims that Mr. Patton had regulators crack down on Birchtree after she ended their relationship in 1999. Mr. Patton acknowledged the affair but denied that he or anyone under his “direct control” misused state authority.

        Mr. Radolovich characterized the alleged tip-off as “just that there would be an inspector there in a couple of days for reinspection, and that came out of the governor's office.”

        Mr. Patton disputed the assertion. “I'm confident that's not true,” he said to reporters following a public event in Louisville. “There's no way my office would have known about the date of inspections.”

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