| Request that the Board waive the $360 campaign finance late fee assessed against Nicholas "Nic" Hunter, a candidate for Mayor, City of Lake Charles, in the March 25, 2017 election, and his committee's treasurer, Jennifer Leach, whose 2017 Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was filed 6 days late. |
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Jennifer Leach, on behalf of Nicholas Hunter, states that she nor Mr. Hunter received the initial letter in January stating when the report was due. She states that she has been very diligent in filing all other reports and asks that the Board please consider in good faith that this will not happen again.
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ELECTION: March 25, 2017
TYPES OF REPORT: 2017 Supplemental
DAYS LATE: 6
ASSESSED FEE: $360
REPORTS DUE: February 15, 2018
REPORTS FILED: February 21, 2018
ACTIVITY REPORT: $1,375 Receipts; $13,840.18 Expenditures; $107,039.62 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE
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18:1505.4.A(1) Any candidate, the treasurer or chairman of a political committee, or any other person required to file any reports under this Chapter, who knowingly fails to file or who knowingly fails to timely file any such reports as are required by this Chapter may be assessed a civil penalty for each day until such report is filed.
18:1495.4D(1) If the final report of a candidate for an election, as required by Paragraph (5), (6), or (7)of Subsection B of this Section, shows a deficit or a surplus, the candidate and his treasurer, if any, shall file supplemental reports with the supervisory committee of all information required in R.S. 18:1495.5. Such reports shall be filed annually no later than February fifteenth and shall be complete through the preceding December thirty-first. Such a supplemental report shall be filed each year until a report has been filed which shows no deficit and until any surplus campaign funds have been disposed of in accordance with R.S. 18:1505.2(I). The report on surplus funds shall disclose the disbursement of such funds in the same manner as expenditures are reported.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Jennifer Land |
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