Lamont files an FEC complaint over Lieberman's expenditure of petty cash

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

LIEberman has found a big fat loophole in campaign finance reporting requirements and is taking advantage of it. Keeping a Petty Cash journal is required, but there is no requirement to make its contents public. Only the FEC can request to see it.


"A review of the use of consultant services by Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's campaign, which in turn dispensed large amounts of petty cash, raises questions about the practice.
Lieberman's Democratic opponent, Ned Lamont, has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over the $387,000 in petty cash the senator spent in the waning days before the August Democratic primary.
Political committees may make expenditures of not more than $100 to any person or for a transaction out of the petty cash fund and are required to keep a written journal documenting the payments.

The campaign has said it is under no legal obligation to release the journal and has no plans to do so. Lieberman also said their attorney has assured him that they have done nothing illegal. "


http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17410021&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=332704&rfi=6