Campaign Violations Haunt Newly-Elected Lawmaker (R-FL)
December 10, 2018 at 7:56 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Rep.-elect Ross Spano (R-FL) is struggling to hire office staff as he relies on a controversial adviser: one of the friends at the center of a campaign finance scandal that is rocking the Florida Republican,
Politico reports.
Spano, an attorney and outgoing state legislator with past financial troubles, recently admitted in a letter to the Federal Election Commission that he might have committed a campaign finance violation in failing for two months to disclose $180,000 he accepted from two friends.
But if the FEC deems the loans to be campaign contributions, they would exceed legal donation limits of $2,700 per cycle, per contributor. And experts say it could constitute a criminal violation by Spano and, potentially, the two people who gave his campaign the money Cary Carreno and Karen Hunt.
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