Month: July 2009

RI AG in Petty Cash Controversy

A complaint was filed against RI AG Patrick Lynch involving state campaign finance law’s treatment of petty cash. The complaint filed with the state Board of Election accused the Lynch campaign of spending more than $9,000 on items recorded as “petty cash” from April last year until March, including nearly $327 on travel and $600 […]

Union PAC Settles

The Active Ballot Club of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union settled a case with Massachusetts’ Office of Campaign and Political Finance involving allegedly impermissible contributions, according to this report.