Newly elected Miami congressman asked to explain errors in campaign reports
Source: Miami Herald
Newly elected Miami congressman asked to explain errors in campaign reports
By Patricia Mazzei -
pmazzei@MiamiHerald.com
11/24/2014 2:17 PM
| Updated: 11/24/2014 2:17 PM
Carlos Curbelo was elected to U.S. Congress earlier this month, but his campaign work is not over.
The Federal Election Commission has asked the Miami Republican to respond to a series of questions for omitting or mislabeling more than $93,000 in campaign contributions, which Curbelo has blamed on a computer software problem.
The federal agency issued Curbelo’s campaign two notices last week — one of them 11 pages long — that, if not answered adequately, could result in audits or fines.
Nicole Rapanos, Curbelo’s campaign manager, said Monday that the campaign plans to respond as early as this week with a complete accounting of contributions and donors omitted or mislabeled.
“Once we get everything answered, we should be OK,” she said. “We’re not trying to hide anything.”
It’s not uncommon for the FEC to ask campaigns to clean up their financial reports. But Curbelo’s reporting missteps were noteworthy because of the large amount of contributions in question so close to Nov. 4 election. Among other things, more than $50,000 in contributions from political action committees were omitted. More than $40,500 were mislabeled, including $5,000 from KochPAC, run by billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch.
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Sorry, I didn't have time to write down that the Koch Brothers gave me all that money......
