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Request that the Board waive the $1,500 late fee assessed against Jesse Broderick for failure to timely file a Supplemental Lobbying Registration Report. |
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Mr. Broderick filed his Supplemental Registration report that was due April 7, 2014, 242 days late on December 5, 2014. He was assessed a late fee of $1,500. Mr. Broderick is requesting leniency by waiving his late fee assessment. He registered as a lobbyist just to make sure he was conservative and didn't run afoul of the State's lobbying laws.
Mr. Broderick states that he doesn't normally do lobbying, and the extent of his involvement with the state is dealing with Louisiana Economic Development ("LED"), meeting with local economic development folks and on a rare occasion, meeting with a local legislator to negotiate an incentive package for a potential economic development project. This is his first late filing that he has incurred. With regard to this situation, he was under a strict Non-Disclosure Agreement ("NDA") with ART, LLC and when he began working with LED to negotiate a potential incentive package, he wasn't sure if he would violate his NDA by adding the company on his supplemental report.
In December, after negotiations were complete, he added the company to his lobbying list, based on the date he began work for ART, just to be sure he was being accurate and truthful in his reporting.
He is asking the Board's understanding and leniency in his case to please waive his late fee assessment, based on the fact that he didn't want to violate his NDA at the time he began work for ART. Further, he wasn't sure that incentive negotiation with LED was considered lobbying, but he wanted err on the side of conservatism by reporting this activity.
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REPORT: Supplemental Registration Report
REPORT DUE: April 7, 2014
REPORT FILED: December 5, 2014
DAYS LATE: 242 DAYS LATE
FEE ASSESSED: $1,500
ACTIVITY REPORTED: $0.00
OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE
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La R.S. 24:58D(1), 49:78D(1) state that any person required to register and who fails to timely register and any person who fails to timely file any report required by this Part shall be assessed, pursuant to R.S. 42:1157, a late fee of fifty dollars per day.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Mike Dupree |
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