{"id":39886,"date":"2012-05-16T23:37:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T05:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=39886"},"modified":"2012-05-16T23:37:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T05:37:49","slug":"king-broke-campaign-reporting-law-fec-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/05\/king-broke-campaign-reporting-law-fec-says\/","title":{"rendered":"King broke campaign reporting law, FEC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34823\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-34823 \" title=\"king-gary-9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/king-gary-9.jpeg\" alt=\"Attorney General Gary King\" width=\"270\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Gary King (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Attorney General <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmag.gov\/the_office\/executive-office\/biography-of-gary-king\" target=\"_blank\">Gary King\u2019s<\/a> unsuccessful 2002 campaign for Congress broke federal law and FEC rules by using an electronic signature of a one-time campaign treasurer on finance reports that treasurer didn\u2019t review.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/05\/16\/news\/king-falls-short-in-reporting-fec-says.html\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Federal Election Commission has concluded that Attorney General Gary King\u2019s 2004 congressional campaign committee filed 45 official reports with the electronic signature of treasurer Bruce Malott \u2013 even though Malott never reviewed the documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe signature is required to comply with federal rules that the treasurer has verified the accuracy of the information, and the commission\u2019s legal analysis concluded the King campaign\u2019s use of Malott\u2019s signature failed to follow federal law and commission regulations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Malott contended that he resigned as treasurer in 2005. King claimed Malott never officially resigned, the Journal reported.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe commission concluded in a ruling dated May 4 that the dispute over whether Malott had resigned was irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commission staff found the differing versions of the facts to be in \u2018sharp conflict\u2019 but concluded that, even assuming King\u2019s version was correct, \u2018the committee used Malott\u2019s electronic signature on reports that he did not personally review and certify as commission regulations instruct.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The campaign committee no longer exists, so the FEC plans no further action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Gary King\u2019s unsuccessful 2002 campaign for Congress broke federal law and FEC rules by using an electronic signature of a one-time campaign treasurer on finance reports that treasurer didn\u2019t review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[223,224,116],"class_list":["post-39886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-campaign-finance","tag-gary-king","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}