WKYTBeshear: Kentucky pays off $972M federal loan 2 years early; businesses to ...Fox BusinessFRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky has paid off a $972 million federal loan two years ahead of schedule, shedding one of the last vestiges of the recession and saving businesses an estimated $165 million in taxes. At the height of the recession, Kentucky had so ...Beshear: Ky.