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Agenda Item
Docket No. 19-1200
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $1,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against Kevin "Butchie" Ambeau, Sr., a candidate for Chief of Police, City of St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in the March 30, 2019, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 166 days late.
Facts:
Kevin Ambeau, Sr., states the following:

He received notice that the 10-G report was overdue for the March 2019 election. There were only two candidates in the primary election and he won that election so he did not participate in the general election in April 2019. He thought that since he didn't participate in the general election that no additional reporting was due. No funds were collected or expended since the last report filed for the March 2019 election.

Comments:
ELECTION: March 30, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 166
ASSESSED FEE: $1,000
REPORTS DUE: April 24, 2019
REPORTS FILED: October 7, 2019


ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 Receipts; $-0 Expenditures; $2,837.50 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.


OTHER LATE FILINGS: FIVE- PAID


4/2/2011 Election: 10-G (14 days late)- $560

2014 SUPP (20 days late) - $400


10/22/2011 Election: 2011 SUPP (Civil Penalty - Failed to File) -$2,000

10-P (1 days late)- $60

10-G (Civil Penalty - Failed to File)- $2,000


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:
Decline to waive.
Assigned Attorney: Jennifer Land
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2019-1200 Staff Memo