Former party treasurer’s use of GOP, federal funds to buy camper was kept under wraps

[Maine-ah]

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/05/09/politics/former-party-treasurers-use-of-gop-federal-funds-to-buy-camper-was-kept-under-wraps/

good lord, it was hard to decide on which paragraphs to pick from....I suggest going to the link for the full story...it's good.


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Using documents obtained through a Freedom of Access Act request and interviews, an investigation by the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting reveals that in late August 2009, Roy, who was the volunteer treasurer of the state Republican Party, asked GOP Chairman Charlie Webster if he could borrow $15,000 of party money for personal reasons.

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Roy then used a GOP credit card to transfer $15,000 into the party’s checking account. Then, wrote Ron Smith, the independent auditor who provided a narrative of the events to State Auditor Neria Douglass, “on around August 27, 2009,” Roy “transferred $14,600 from the Maine Republican Party’s operating checking account to an account in New York to pay for and complete the purchase of a camper.”

Next, Smith wrote, $15,000 from the the Central/Western Maine Workforce Investment Board’s checking account “went from the checking account to an account that Mr. Roy was personally authorized on at Savings Bank of Maine. The funds were then wired out of that account to pay for items of Mr. Roy’s personal use.”

Roy used that money to reimburse the Republican Party for the $14,600 he used to buy the camper, according to the auditor’s narrative.



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