Crew Fec Complaint Against Rep. Delay Pac – Armpac – Results In $115,000 Fine

[97silverlsc]

CREW FEC COMPLAINT AGAINST REP. DELAY PAC – ARMPAC – RESULTS IN $115,000 FINE
One of Largest Fines in FEC History
http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=140
Washington, DC – Last night, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) released a conciliation agreement reached with Americans for a Republican Majority political action committee (ARMPAC) stemming from a complaint Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed against the PAC last August. As a result of CREW's FEC complaint, ARMPAC has agreed to pay a $115,000 civil penalty and go out of business. ARMPAC was created and led by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX).

This is one of the 50 largest fines ever obtained by the FEC in its 30-year history.

The FEC found that:

--ARMPAC failed to report accurately nearly a quarter million dollars in contributions and expenditures during the 2001-2002 election cycle.

--ARMPAC failed to report nearly $325,000 in debts owed to 25 campaign vendors.

--ARMPAC improperly used over $200,000 in soft money to pay for federal election activity. In particular, ARMPAC improperly used over $120,000 in soft money to pay for GOTV activities in Texas immediately before the 2002 general election.

CREW’s executive director, Melanie Sloan, stated, “the conciliation agreement reached between the FEC and ARMPAC shows a clear pattern of abuse of campaign finance laws.” Sloan continued, “on a disturbingly regular basis we learn that former House Majority Leader DeLay violated the law. From the Jack Abramoff scandal to the violations of Texas campaign finance laws, to Rep. DeLay’s misuse of charitable organizations, the list seems endless. It is time for federal investigators to step in and undertake a thorough investigation of Rep. DeLay’s financial dealings so that the public can learn the true extent of Rep. DeLay’s illegal activities and he can be held accountable.”

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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a non-profit, legal watchdog group dedicated to holding public officials accountable for their actions.

 

[fossten]

July 4, 2004
BRIEFINGS: POLITICS; F.E.C. FINES DEVELOPER
The Federal Election Commission on Wednesday leveled one of its largest fines ever against Charles Kushner, a developer and major Democratic Party donor, for contributing money to political candidates in the names of his partnerships when he did not have the authority to do so. Mr. Kushner agreed to pay the F.E.C. $508,900, a commission spokesman said. The commission's investigation found that Mr. Kushner, who controls 40 partnership entities, violated the F.E.C.'s ''partnership contribution regulations'' by failing to obtain the agreement of the partners to whom more than $500,000 in contributions were attributed.

Home Mortgage Giant to Pay $3.8 Million in Fines to F.E.C.
By KATE PHILLIPS
Freddie Mac had been accused of improperly funneling corporate executives' donations to political candidates and holding lavish fund-raisers for them.

April 19, 2006

IN BRIEF; State Democrats Fined On Campaign Finances
By KAREN DEMASTERS
New Jersey Democratic State Committee is fined $15,000 by Federal Election Commission for illegally using money raised for state, county and local races to pay campaign costs for Federal candidates in 1996 elections

January 3, 1999

'96 Financing Results in Fine For Democrats
New Jersey Democratic Party agrees to pay $15,000 fine to Federal Election Commission for improperly mixing money raised under Federal law with money raised under permissive state law; commission investigated transfers from party's state account to its Federal account in 1996, year in which New Jersey Democrats produced victories for Clinton-Gore re-election campaign and for Sen Robert G Torricelli

December 29, 1998

National News Briefs; Fund-Raiser Is Fined And Put on Probation
Democratic fund-raiser Howard Glicken is fined $80,000, placed on 18 months' probation and ordered to do 500 hours of community service for soliciting 1993 campaign donations from foreigner Thomas Kramer to Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and arranging contribution be made in phony name; he has also agreed to pay Federal Election Commission $40,000 civil fine (M)8

November 26, 1998

Wright Settles Charge of Illegal Contribution
AP
The Federal Election Commission has said that two fund-raising committees for former House Speaker Jim Wright accepted an illegal contribution from a Texas businessman later imprisoned in connection with the savings and loan scandal. A commission spokesman, Scott Moxley, said Wednesday that Mr. Wright's principal fund-raising committee and his leadership committee had agreed to pay penalties totaling $1,500 to settle the case.

December 14, 1990

Hart's 1984 Campaign Agrees To Pay $12,000 Civil Penalty
By RICHARD L. BERKE, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
LEAD: Gary Hart's 1984 Presidential campaign has agreed to pay a $12,000 civil penalty to the Federal Election Commission for election law violations that include the former Colorado Senator's use of a personal credit card for expenses that should have been paid by the campaign.

November 29, 1988

Election Panel Action On Mondale Assailed
AP
The Federal Election Commission should have imposed a stiffer fine on Walter F. Mondale's Presidential campaign for the excess spending by its labor-financed delegate committees, one of the commissioners said today. The commissioner, Frank P. Reiche, was one of the dissenters in the commission's 4-to-2 decision that imposed a civil fine of $18,500 and ordered the Mondale campaign to pay the Treasury $350,000 instead of refunding the excess contributions from labor political action committees to the delegate committees.

December 6, 1984

CAMPAIGN NOTES; Black Caucus PAC Agrees To Pay Fine
AP
The political action committee of the Congressional Black Caucus has agreed to pay a $250 fine for several minor campaign law violations, according to Federal Election Commission documents released Monday. A conciliation agreement stated that the caucus committee had received five corporate donations ranging from $20 to $100 in violation of a law prohibiting corporations from contributing to Federal elections.

June 20, 1984



I could go on and on...

 

[97silverlsc]

And this has to do with your scumbag hero Delay how?
Are you trying to argue that 2 wrongs (or more) make a right?

 

[fossten]

And this has to do with your scumbag hero Delay how?
Are you trying to argue that 2 wrongs (or more) make a right?

How is that fine directly related to DeLay's actions? All that article says is that DeLay created ARMPAC. So what?

And your emphasis, "one of the 50 biggest fines ever" is a joke. OOO, top 50. Out of how many? 50? Ridiculous.

 

[Calabrio]

It breaks his heart to get news like this and then realize that Delay is
1. Not in the house leadership.
2. Not running for political office.

So sad...