18 July 2010, 2:30 pm
FEC fines Biden for illegal campaign contributions By Holly Bailey * Buzz up!3 votes * o Share o retweet o Email o Print By Holly Bailey holly Bailey – Sun Jul 18, 10:42 am ET Federal election officials have fined Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign more than $219,000 to cover excessive contributions and shoddy record-keeping during his 2008 bid for the Democratic nomination. A report prepared in April but only approved Friday by the Federal Election Commission found Biden’s campaign had inadequately reported more than $3.7 million in spending and more than $870,000 in debts. The audit also found that Biden had been too slow to return nearly $1.2 million to donors who had already given the $2,300 contribution limit. Ultimately, the audit found the Biden campaign had not returned $106,216 in excess contributions from donors. The audio also uncovered $85,900 in so-called “stale checks” which the campaign had paid out to cover debts and excessive contributions but the payees had never deposited the funds. In addition, the FEC found the Biden committee had underreported the value of a charter plane flight by almost $27,000. In June 2007, the Biden campaign reimbursed GEH Air Transportation for a round-trip flight between New Hampshire and Iowa. GEH, Politico’s Ken Vogel reports, is a subsidiary of the Clinton Group, a New York hedge fund (no relation to Bill or Hillary Cinton). The campaign paid $7,911 for the flight—the equivalent of three first-class plane tickets. And as usual Leftists are slow on the uptake and totally incapable of discerning and logical thought . -----------Your excuse this time is that Joe was just slow --------good one If you had any deductive reasoning capabilities you would realize that Joe purposely closed the books on his campaign and pretended all was a ok until he was caught red handed by an investigation . ----------But no he was just "SLOW" right If you had any deductive reasoning capabilities you would realize that Joe purposely closed the books on his campaign and pretended all was a ok until he was caught red handed by an investigation . ----------But no he was just "SLOW" right... Read More »
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