Biden fined $219k for '08 campaign finance violations. (Hope & Change!!!)

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Biden fined $219k for '08 violations
Politico ^
Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010 3:22:47 PM 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.


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Hoax and Change

[Dos Equis]

Dang.  Cheated and still got his butt kicked.  I still can't believe this man got in the White House.

[Soul Crusher]

Silence from 240, Danny, Benny, Straw et al.  Figures.  If this was Palin they would be foaming at the mouth. 

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FEC: Joe Biden 2008 Presidential Campaign Must Pay $219,000
First Posted: 07-17-10 06:01 PM   |   Updated: 07-17-10 09:49 PM


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 WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- Election watchdogs have directed Joe Biden's 2008 presidential campaign to pay the U.S Treasury more than $219,000 to resolve issues caused by sloppy bookkeeping and accepting excessive contributions, including a discounted flight on a private jet.

The audit was released Friday by the Federal Election Commission.

It determined that the Biden campaign accepted an improper corporate contribution in the form of a round-trip flight between New Hampshire and Iowa in June 2007 for three people. The Biden campaign paid GEH Air Transportation $7,911 for the first-class airfare, but regulators say the campaign should have paid the charter rate of $34,800.

The FEC also found that the Biden campaign could not document repaying at least $106,000 in donations that were over the limit, and the campaign was ordered to pay the U.S. Treasury more than $85,000 for stale-dated checks.

The Biden campaign also failed to disclose more than $3.7 million in payments and roughly $870,000 in debts.

The audit was conducted in part as a condition of Biden's accepting taxpayer funds for his campaign through the presidential public financing system.

Biden, now the vice president, campaigned for president for nearly a year before dropping out in January 2008 after a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses.

Elizabeth Alexander, a spokeswoman for Biden in the vice president's office, on Saturday said the campaign would repay the money.

"Some repayment is commonplace after presidential campaign audits and the repayment ordered here is relatively small. Payment is due to the Treasury 30 days after the FEC issues its formal ruling and Biden for President will comply with that," she said.

UPDATE: This version replaces an earlier AP story to show that the FEC directed the Biden campaign to pay the Treasury $219,000, but that amount was not necessarily a "fine."

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Anyone else would go to jail for this, unless of course you are a lib. 

[Dos Equis]

Silence from 240, Danny, Benny, Straw et al.  Figures.  If this was Palin they would be foaming at the mouth. 

Truth. 

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This is where there is a brutal double standard these left-tards refuse to acknowledge because they buy into their fantasy filled MSM themes of the brilliant obama and biden, while the truth is that both are nothing more that political hacks and thieves like the rest of them.   

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Bump for 240, Benny, Danny, and the rest of the Obama Admn supporters. 

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Truth. 

haha...without a doubt this would've been a 4 page + thread if it were Palin.  The obsession is sickening.

[240 is Back]

Biden sucks.





For the 10000th time from me.




Truth.

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Biden sucks.





For the 10000th time from me.




Truth.

Yet, if this was palin you would hang it around her neck on every thread. 

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Yet, if this was palin you would hang it around her neck on every thread. 

And how!  You could have a thread about making pizza and somehow, someway, he'd get a dig on Palin in.  I'm convinced he's got a school-boy crush on her and just doesn't know how to deal with it.

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Dang.  Cheated and still got his butt kicked.  I still can't believe this man got in the White House.

I guess that just shows how much the Repub ticket sucked

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And how!  You could have a thread about making pizza and somehow, someway, he'd get a dig on Palin in.  I'm convinced he's got a school-boy crush on her and just doesn't know how to deal with it.

lol