ADR 725

REFERRING OFFICE: FEC Commission

RESPONDENT: Mike Crapo for U.S. Senate

ELECTION CYCLE: 2008

OPENING DATE: 06/10/2014

CLOSING DATE: 09/16/2014

DISPOSITION: The Commission failed by a vote of 1-5 to: a.Approve the settlement agreement of Mike Crapo for US Senate and Paul Kilgore, Treasurer, as recommended in the Memorandum from the Chief Compliance Officer and the Director, ADR Office dated August 19, 2014. b. Approve the appropriate letters. c. Close the file on this matter. d. Authorize ADRO to make the following paragraph from the ?internal use only? section public along with the rest of the file: "In addition to voluntarily reporting this matter to the FBI and the Commission, the Committee has undertaken some remedial measures to ensure errors of this nature do not occur in the future. The Committee requires dual authorization for disbursements and indicates that there are other written procedures which could be made more robust. Under the terms of the proposed settlement, those written procedures will be strengthened to include the Commission's Best Practices for Committee Management and senior campaign staff and vendors will be required to acknowledge the implemented controls."