| Request that the Board waive a $1,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against Carrie Wheeler, a successful candidate for Council Member, City of Harahan, Jefferson Parish, in the November 6, 2018 election, whose 2020 Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was filed 113 days late. |
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Carrie Wheeler requests a waiver and states the following:
He acknowledges and deeply apologizes for his late filing. With Covid hitting his family and business, he got lost in handling other matters. Please consider waiving the fee in light of this unusual and one-time circumstance.
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ELECTION: November 6, 2018
TYPES OF REPORT: 2020 SUPPL
DAYS LATE: 113
ASSESSED FEE: $1,000
REPORTS DUE: February 18, 2021
REPORTS FILED: June 11, 2021
ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 Receipts; $110.00 Expenditures; $50.87 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: THREE
10-P (18 days late) $400--PAID
SUPP2021 (2 days late) $80--UNPAID
11/4/2014 Election: EDE-P (8 days late) - $320--PAID
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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.
Rule 1205C provides that if a report is filed more than 10 days late and the
amount of activity on the report is less than the amount of
the late fee to be assessed, the staff may reduce the late fee
to the amount of activity or 10 times the per-day penalty,
whichever is greater
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Reduce to $400 based on Rule 1205C; decline to waive.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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