MUR #6597

RESPONDENTS: Durkee, Kinde; Durkee & Associates LLC

COMPLAINANTS: Wardlaw, William; Feinstein for Senate; Fund for the Majority

SUBJECT: Other; Personal use; Reporting

DISPOSITION: The Commission decided by a vote of 5-1 to take the following actions in MUR 6597: 1. Accept the conciliation agreement with Kinde Durkee, as recommended in the Memorandum from the Associate General Counsel for Enforcement dated October 9, 2014. 2. Approve the appropriate letters. 3. Close the file.
The Commission decided by a vote of 6-0 to: 1. Open a MUR as to Kinde Durkee in Pre-MURs 534, 537, 538, 539, and RR 12L-18, 12L-28, 12L-29, 12L-30, and 12L-43, and merge the newly opened MUR into MUR 6597.2. Find reason to believe that Kinde Durkee knowingly and willfully violated 2 U.S.C. §§ 432(b)(3), 432(c), 434(b), 439a(b). b3. Enter into pre-probable cause conciliation with Kinde Durkee prior to a finding of probable cause to believe. 4. Take no action and close the file as to Durkee & Associates, LLC. 5. Approve the Factual and Legal Analysis as recommended in the First General Counsel's Report dated November 25, 2013 with edits circulated by Chair Weintraub's Office and discussed at the table and authorize the Office of General Counsel to make any necessary technical and conforming edits. 6. ..........REDACTED .......... 7. Approve the appropriate letters.