| Request that the Board waive a $1,000 and $320 campaign finance late fee assessed against Ernest A. Burguieres, III, a candidate for Council Member at Large, City of Mandeville, St. Tammany Parish, in the July 11, 2020 election, whose 2019 Annual and 10-G campaign finance disclosure reports were filed 65 and 8 days late, respectively. |
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Ernest A. Burguieres, III requests a waiver and states the following:
He made a mistake in assuming that the 30-P report due March 5, 2020 was the first report to be filed. As a result, he filed the 30-P on February 26, 2020, which covered all activity from October 18, 2019, when he first received contributions to February 24, 2020. In March 2020, he contracted COVID-19. In April 2020, he was hospitalized for health issues related to the virus. He received a letter dated March 17, 2020 informing him to breakdown the 30-P report into two separate reports; an annual report which covered October 18, 2019 through December 31, 2019 and the 30-P. He filed this revised annual report on April 23, 2020. His error was in making it one report instead of two reports.
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ELECTION: July 11, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 2019 ANN & 10-G
DAYS LATE: 65 & 8
ASSESSED FEE: $1,000 & $320
REPORTS DUE: February 18, 2020 and August 5, 2020
REPORTS FILED: April 23, 2020 and August 13, 2020
ACTIVITY REPORT: 2019 Annual: $8,160.00 Receipts; $645.90 Expenditures; $7,514.10 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
10-G: $1603.38 in Receipts; $1616.05 in Expenditures and $197.98 Funds on 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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With respect to the 2019 Annual report, suspend all based on future compliance. With respect to the 10-G, decline to waive.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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