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Auditors: Dole should return illegal money
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| News Date | Thursday, November 3, 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Federal auditors said that a campaign committee for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., should return $81,320 in unlawful corporate contributions from her 2002 campaign, but the committee insists that a convicted felon who cooked the books should be held responsible.
A federal audit of the Dole North Carolina Victory Committee, a joint fund-raising effort between Dole and the N.C. Republican Party that Haywood helped manage, determined that it had deposited 31 checks received from the general funds of corporations. Such donations are unlawful.
The review by Federal Election Commission auditors released yesterday said that the Victory Committee "bears the responsibility for the return of the prohibited contributions." The committee also could bear the legal consequences.
Dole's campaign committee said that Haywood is responsible for those contributions and should return them himself. Neither Dole nor the party used the illegal donations because Haywood hid them, said Cleta Mitchell, the committee's Washington attorney. |
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