| Request that the Board waive a $2,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against Deven W. Cavalier, a candidate for State Senator, 13th Senatorial District, East Baton Rouge Parish, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 78 days late. |
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Deven W. Cavalier requests a waiver and states the following:
The only time he didn't call for assistance, he made an error. He received a call from Scott Innis who invited him to purchase tickets to the Lane Hardy Homecoming Bash in the amount of $1,500 which included the use of a tent and table. After receiving the late fee, he contacted the Ethics office and was told this had to be listed as an expense. Upon doing so, that process generated a fine. He did not intentionally make this error and has no plans of ever running for office again.
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ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 78
ASSESSED FEE: $2,000
REPORTS DUE: November 6, 2019
REPORTS FILED: January 23, 2020
ACTIVITY REPORT: 10-G: $7,729.71 Receipts; $8,150.00 Expenditures and $-0 Funds on Hand at the Close of the 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: |
Kathleen Allen |
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