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Request that the Board waive a $2,500 campaign finance late fee assessed against Juana Marine-Lombard, an unsuccessful candidate for Judge, Criminal District Court, Section A, Orleans Parish in the October 20, 2007 election, whose 2020 Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was filed 115 days late. |
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Juana Marine-Lombard requests a waiver and states the following: She is still carrying $100,000 of debt from the two races and was unemployed for nearly 6 months, while she ran in the 2020 election. That debt, the recent hurricane, along with recent changes in her living/personal situation makes it difficult to pay the $2,500 fine at this time. She filed her 2020 Supplemental report for the 2020 election, but didn't file the one for the 2007 election. Since she was a judicial candidate she didn't handle her campaign finance reports. Her former campaign manager, also her former spouse was handling those reports. In February or March of 2021, a letter was received about failure to file the 2020 Supp, but her former manager didn't address the issue because he thought it was referring to the 2020 report already filed.
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ELECTION: October 20, 2007
TYPES OF REPORT: 2020 SUPPL
DAYS LATE: 115
ASSESSED FEE: $2,500
REPORTS DUE: February 18, 2021
REPORTS FILED: June 13, 2021
ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 in Receipt; $-0 in Expenditures and $-0 Funds on Hand at Close of Reporting Period - Has outstanding deficit of $84,662.04
OTHER LATE FILINGS: TEN (10)
4/22/2006 Election: 10-P (1 days late) - $100 - PAID
SPEC (8 days late)- $800 - PAID
SPEC (1 days late) - $100 - PAID
EDE-P (6 days late) - $600 - PAID
2006 SUPP (145 days late) - $1,000 - PAID
2010 SUPP (1 days late) - $100 - PAID
10/20/2007 Election: SPEC (6 days late) - $600 -PAID
SPEC (5 days late) - $500 - PAID
2010 SUPP (1 days late) - $100 -PAID
11/3/2020 Election: 90-P (1 days late) - $100 - NOT 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.
LAC 52:1205(C) states 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 $1,000 based on Rule 1205C; decline to waive.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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