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Kelly Huff
Bob Biersack
Ian Stirton
George Smaragdis
COMPLIANCE CASES MADE PUBLIC
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission has recently made public
its final actions on two matters previously under review (MURs). This
release contains only disposition information.
Torricelli for U.S. Senate, Inc., Timothy
S. Jackson, treasurer
COMPLAINANTS:
Alex N. Vogel, General Counsel, National
Republican Senatorial Committee
SUBJECT:
Use of general election funds when
candidate was not participating in general election
DISPOSITION:
No reason to believe*
The complaint
stated that due to the fact the Senator Torricelli withdrew from the
general election, he was required to refund, redesignate or reattribute
all contributions designated for the general election raised prior to
his withdrawal. The Commission found that Senator Torricelli had been a
candidate for the general election for several months preceding his
withdrawal from the race and was not required to refund contributions
designated for that election.
DOCUMENTS ON PUBLIC RECORD:
Documents from this matter are available
from the Commission’s web site at fec.gov by entering 5316 under case number. They are also available in the FECs Public Records
Office at 999 E St. NW in Washington.
(a) Chamber of Commerce of the United
States (a/k/a U.S. Chamber of Commerce)
(b) National Beer Wholesalers
Association, Inc.
(c) BIPAC’s Institute for Political Analysis
(d) Business-Industry Political Action Committee (a/k/a BIPAC Action
Fund), Allan D. Cors, treasurer
(e) Household International, Inc.
COMPLAINANTS:
Carmen Balber, on behalf of Foundation for
Taxpayer and Consumer Rights
SUBJECT:
Corporate contributions
DISPOSITION:
(a-e) No reason to believe*
The complaint
alleged that the respondents made prohibited corporate expenditures by
directing "partisan" communications to corporate employees. The
Commission found that there was no reason to believe the ads represented
partisan communications.
DOCUMENTS ON PUBLIC RECORD:
Documents from this matter are available
from the Commission’s web site at fec.gov by entering 5342 under case number. They are also available in the FECs Public Records
Office at 999 E St. NW in Washington.
*There are four administrative stages to the FEC enforcement process:
1. Receipt of proper complaint
3. "Probable cause" stage
2. "Reason to believe" stage
4. Conciliation stage
It requires the votes of at least four of the six Commissioners to take
any action. The FEC can close a case at any point after reviewing a
complaint. If a violation is found and conciliation cannot be reached, then
the FEC can institute a civil court action against a respondent.
