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LEXINGTON Ads placed in a Lexington newspaper by lawyers soliciting family members of victims who died in Comair Flight 5191 has drawn the ire of the Attorney General’s Office.

Attorney General Greg Stumbo says his office has forwarded several complaints to the U.S. Attorney’s office and the Kentucky Bar Association regarding the ads, which he said showed “questionable conduct” by the attorneys.

Stumbo said federal law prohibits attorneys from soliciting victims’ families for 45 days following a plane crash. Though he’s not sure whether the ads were improper, Stumbo said he considered the ads tasteless.