CREW files FEC complaint against Senator Martinez: “Basically, Mel Martinez broke the law in order to win an election."
CREW filed an Federal Elections Commission (FEC) complaint today against Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) alleging multiple egregious violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) and FEC regulations.. The complaint and the accompanying materials can be found here.
The complaint is based primarily upon the Commission’s recent audit on April 17, 2007 of Martinez for Senate, which revealed that the campaign committee failed to comply with the most basic disclosure provisions of FECA and FEC regulations. During the course of the ten-month campaign, Martinez for Senate received no fewer than three written warnings from the Commission.
The FEC’s Audit Division found that Martinez for Senate violated several statues by failing to disclose occupation and/or employer information for an astonishing forty-six percent (46%) of the individuals who contributed to the campaign, and by failing to provide any contributor identification information at all for approximately $320,000 in contributions.
The Audit Division also found that Martinez for Senate accepted $313,325 in excessive contributions. Virtually all of those illegal funds were spent by Martinez for Senate in order to win the 2004 general election when, in fact, they should not have been available for use. Additionally, in the twenty days before the 2004 general election, Martinez for Senate received, but failed to disclose, $140,514 in contributions.
After filing the complaint, CREW's Melanie Sloan said:
The violations committed by Martinez for Senate are unprecedented in both size and scope. Basically, Mel Martinez broke the law in order to win an election. Now, years later, he is a sitting Senator and the chairman of the Republican National Committee. A failure by the FEC to severely sanction the Martinez for Senate campaign committee will demonstrate that violating the law pays.
failure by the FEC
The FEC is already a failure.. a criminal failure, the members deserving imprisonment for criminal malfeasance.
Even RNC chair?
Demonstrating once again the rules don't apply to them, they are above the law leaving the message, "Hell, they won't do anything about it, they're one of us(DoJ). They won't enforce it. The party certainly has no moral objections as you can see by my appointment. This is what it is all about. Why do you think I wanted to be Senator in the first place? And look how many stand to profit from it as judged by the overwhelming contributions. Yeah, what can I say. I love this country." Just makes ya' sick don't it?
Is it possible
to lodge enough complaints with the Republican National Committee to get Martinez removed from his chairmanship? Is it possible to get the Senate ethics committee to investigate him?
Bush Neutered FEC
Bush's three unconfirmed commissioners and the two expired commissioners on the FEC probably arent going to go anything. Can't this go to another departement? How about DOJ?
Naturally...
...his finance director was a self-loathing gay man
outlaw
I wonder if CREW is fighting this alone or if others, namely Democrats, are helping any.
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Mel Martinez and corruption
The whole political process in this country is so hypocritical and reeked in intellectual dishonesty!Bush starting wars on lies for oil. We have the "smoking gun" in the Downing Street Memo, yet silence and no action or accountabilty taken.Missing billions of dollars unaccounted for in Iraq.American taxpayers money being stolen , wasted and diverted to halliburton and Blackwater cost over runs. Oil and drug companies writing legislation for themselves. These low life ,evil, criminal bastards should have been in prison long ago. And the, so called, opposition, the democrats , dragging it's feet,oblivious to what is going on outside the Washinton clubhouse;not doing the will of the American people, who want accountability .Mel Martinez ? He is just one in this culture of corruption. It's sickening , to say the least.Innocent, powerless people, being exploited, dying, for what? Freedom, democracy? Gimme a break! It's for MONEY, my friend, always have been!!!!!