NJ: Use of Campaign Funds
A New Jersey court upheld an opinion that Rep. Wayne Bryant cannot use campaign funds to pay for his legal expenses, according to this report. Former State Sen. Wayne Bryant of Camden County cannot use his remaining campaign money to pay legal bills from his corruption trial, an appellate court ruled yesterday. The decision upholds […]
Shays: Campaign Finance Issues
According to reports, defeated Rep. Chris Shays admitted that a campaign “employee committed some kind of financial fraud during the course of the campaign.” The announcement was vague about the circumstances, only saying that the work on the $3.6 million campaign’s final financial filings demonstrated “a series of anomalies.” Those anomalies were apparently discovered by […]
Texas Ethics Commission Action
The Texas Ethics Commission apparently fined a Justice Nathan Hecht for campaign finance abuses, according to this report. The Texas Ethics Commission fined Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht $29,000 after finding that he broke campaign finance laws by accepting and then failing to report an excessive political contribution from a major Texas law firm. Hecht, […]