Posted on 07/17/2010 12:22:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Biden fined $219k for '08 violations By: Kenneth P. Vogel July 17, 2010 02:40 PM EDT
The Federal Election Commission has penalized Vice President Joe Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign $219,000 for accepting over-the-limit contributions and a deeply discounted flight on a private jet owned by an embattled New York hedge fund, as well as for sloppy record-keeping.
Biden’s campaign has indicated to the FEC that it will pay the penalty to the U.S. Treasury to resolve the campaign finance compliance issues, which were revealed in an audit report released Friday by the commission.
Elizabeth Alexander, a spokeswoman for Biden in the vice president’s office, called the FEC-ordered repayment “relatively small,” and said "some repayment is commonplace after presidential campaign audits.”
Biden was subject to the audit as a condition of accepting taxpayer funds for his campaign through the presidential public financing system. In all, Biden, who dropped out of the race after coming in fifth in the Iowa caucuses and was tapped eight months later to be Barack Obama’s running mate, received $857,000 in taxpayer money for his presidential campaign (including thousands of dollars after he was elected vice president) which raised $8.2 million from individual contributions, according to the report.
It found that the campaign accepted an illegal corporate contribution in the form of a round-trip flight between New Hampshire and Iowa in June 2007 for three people (it does not indicate if Biden, then a Senator from Delaware, was among the passengers) on a private jet owned by GEH Air Transportation, LLC. Federal Aviation Administration records show that GEH Air Transportation is owned by the Clinton Group, a New York hedge fund controlled by George E. Hall.
(Excerpt) Read more at dyn.politico.com ...
he’s a crook- smart ass is a crook
“Biden to resign for health reasons...Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is widely expected to be his replacement...”
Our media is a joke too.
If Cheney or Quayle did this...
Is there no one in this administration who is not a crook?
Biden violates election rules.
His campaign gets fined.
They send the money in.
The money is just enough to cover Biden's salary.
In the end nothing changes.
$750,000 million in taxpayer money and all they had to do was buy off a few corrupt politicians. This is easy money. Does anyone wonder why all the Wall Street firms donate so much to Democrats?
on a Friday, of course
How far we have gone into the ditch when $250,000 in Washington think is relatively small.
Is there no one in this administration who is not a crook?
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Yeah, I think the jury is still out on their dog, Bo. /sarc
Indeed. So even federal regulatory agencies now hide announcements on Friday afternoons so it is old news by Monday? One word: Despicable.
I didn't know gov't workers have to work on Fridays.
Didn’t Nixon’s VP get in trouble for something similar and
ended up resigning?
Greed.
Then again, maybe there are special Friday workdays for gov’t workers called ‘press release Fridays’
“Yeah, I think the jury is still out on their dog, Bo. /sarc”
Sorry—When I hear that Bo got his own plane on the taxpayers dime to meet up with the posers family and him on vacation, I gotta think that even Bo must be a crook.
They are not really expected to work on any day of the week, they just have to show up and be there.
When are they going to fine Obama for all the illegal overseas donations and the election fraud by ACORN?
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