FEC demands more information on McMahon campaign vendors

The Federal Election Commission has directed Republican Linda McMahon to disclose the recipients of more than $567,000 in payments made by the candidate during the start-up of her campaign for the U.S. Senate.

The payments, for services ranging from political consulting to legal advice to computer assistance, were listed simply as in-kind contributions from the candidate herself on an initial campaign finance report McMahon filed last year. That meant the identities of some of the campaign's vendors, including top-flight Republican political strategists and law firms, were not disclosed to the public.

After The Day first reported on the in-kind contributions in December, the McMahon campaign blasted the article as "erroneous," since the campaign had not received a notice from the FEC requesting more detailed disclosures. And a spokesman said he saw no reason to file additional details with the FEC disclosing the identities of the campaign's vendors.

"Why would we amend or re-file something that without question is filed correctly?" McMahon spokesman Ed Patru said on Dec. 11.

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