The Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce was recently hit with a campaign finance complaint, according to this report. Seven Scottsdale mayor and council candidates filed a complaint with the county attorney’s office Monday alleging the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce illegally used corporate funds to advocate the election of the four other candidates in the […]
This story (with video) shows how one campaign finance agency is approaching public education. “Campaign finance is often very complicated,” says Kelly Neer, Assistant Campaign Finance Administrator for Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, “and sometimes, first-time candidates and committees sometimes don’t know the regulations. They can get in trouble; we’re trying to prevent that.”
ACORN may have suffered from an embezzlement case. In 2000, Acorn discovered that Dale Rathke had embezzled $948,507.50 from it and affiliated charitable organizations. The management committee that controlled the organization decided not to alert law enforcement officials, and negotiated an agreement with the Rathke family to repay the money. That agreement was carried on […]