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FEC Reviewing Complaint Against Frank Guinta (UPDATED)

by: Dean Barker

Thu Dec 16, 2010 at 06:06:32 AM EST


DiStaso:
The Federal Election Commission notified the state Democratic Party Wednesday that it has begun a review of questions the party raised about the source of $355,000 in loans and contributions Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Frank Guinta made to his campaign.

...The FEC acknowledged receipt of the complaint and said the Guinta camp will be notified within five business days.

This a day after Team Guinta was parading a standard form letter from the House as some kind of proof of innocence:
The e-mail received by the Guinta camp this week is not specifically in response to the complaint the Democrats filed with the House, but is instead the result of a standard review the ethics committees does of all House members.
So in sum: the FEC complaints, the House complaint, and the request for a US Attorney to investigate are all still out there hanging over our Representative Elect and his mystery money.

Tick tock.

UPDATE: The AP picks up on the development (bold mine):

The Federal Elections Commission has taken a preliminary step toward investigating U.S. Rep.-elect Frank Guinta's personal finances.

The commission this week told state Democratic Party director Mike Brunelle that it has assigned a case number to his complaint and that Guinta will have 15 days to respond once he is notified.

Dean Barker :: FEC Reviewing Complaint Against Frank Guinta (UPDATED)
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We political junkies chomping at the bit may not have to wait until the presidential!

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They are busy stacking the deck.

WASHINGTON -- With "transparency" and "accountability" the new buzz words amongst the incoming Republican lawmakers in Congress, one fixture that may ironically be on the chopping block is the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent watchdog set up to handle ethics complaints.

"Even as they outline institutional reforms, GOP leaders are gearing up to kill the fledgling Office of Congressional Ethics, which helps police ethics complaints," reported the National Journal on Monday. "They are handpicking top aides, many of them old K Street hands, to staff key committees and Capitol Hill offices. Some tea party activists grouse that lobbyists and insiders are trying to 'co-opt' the GOP freshmen."



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