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Agenda Item
Docket No. 19-629
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $1,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against Richard Guy Duplantier, a candidate for Judge, Civil District Court, Division A, Orleans Parish, in the March 24, 2018 election, with his chairperson, Leila A. D'Aquin, and his treasurer, Mary L. Dumestre, whose 2018 Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was filed 19 days late.
Facts:
Mary L. Dumestre, treasurer for Richard Guy Duplantier, states that the first issue was that as of December 31, 2018, she no longer had access to her computer files to look back to see how she filed prior reports and have access to online filing. On January 7th, she mailed the report to make sure it was filed before she left to take care of her sister in Pensacola. She didn't realize the report was required to be filed online until she received notice of the violation almost two months later. She immediately called the Board office and spoke to staff who walked her through the correct procedure.
Comments:
ELECTION: March 24, 2018
TYPES OF REPORT: 2018 Supplemental
DAYS LATE: 19
ASSESSED FEE: $1,000
REPORTS DUE: February 15, 2018
REPORTS FILED: March 6, 2019

ACTIVITY REPORT: $5,273.32 Receipts; $12,582.44 Expenditures(Loan Repayment); $-0 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.


OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE

Law:
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.

Recommendations:
Suspend all based on future compliance.
Assigned Attorney: Jennifer Land
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2019-629 Waiver Request