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 […]
Month: December 2008
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, […]
WEA Settles
The Washington Education Association settled its campaign finance case the the State of Washington had brought. After eight years and several go-rounds in court, Washington’s teacher and school employee union will pay $975,000 to settle a campaign finance lawsuit. The Washington Education Association was accused in 2000 of illegally spending nonmember fees on political campaigns. […]