Month: March 2008

Minding Committee Finances

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 13, 2008
Categories In Uncategorized

In 2007, the FEC released a Statement of Policy establishing a safe harbor for misreporting due to embezzlement of committee funds. This hugely helpful policy, and its thankfully brief presentation in the Federal Register, is must-reading (or re-reading, I suspect) in today’s times.

Thanks

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 13, 2008
Categories In Uncategorized

A short personal note of thanks to those who’ve emailed with kind words about the blog.

Collecting Fines

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 12, 2008
Categories In Indiana

Federal and state campaign finance and ethics enforcement agencies fine campaigns and political committees all the time. But what if they need to collect from a reluctant respondent? In Indiana, a mayoral candidate may learn how the Indiana Election Division plans to proceed: According to an e-mail from Leslie Barnes, co-counsel with the Indiana Election […]