He was late filing fund-raising statements with the Federal Election Commission and he obtained an eyebrow-raising $300,000 loan from the Patriot National Bank in Stamford, where his father-in-law, Salvatore Trovato, is a director.
Local 324′s $1.4 billion rank-and-file fund has 18,000 participants, or $79,000 per head, and is 81% funded.
They must file fund-raising disclosure statements by next Tuesday for the period that ends today.
This is the simple requirement that senators file fund-raising reports electronically, as House and presidential candidates long have done, rather than through the hoary, paper-intensive route that has let senators obscure their benefactors and beholdings.
According to the filing, the fund (which is Tandem's third) will total $100 million, several times larger than the $32 million fund that Tandem raised last year.
The new pro bono agency will not advise families about whether they should sue or file a fund claim, its organizers said.
I support electronic filing of fund-raising reports in the Senate because, as we probably agree, disclosure leads to more transparency in government.
The Romney campaign had not yet filed its fund-raising data for the year.
The case is one of several lawsuits filed by funds over MBIA's restructuring.
Possible candidates for offices in New York City had a similar requirement to file their fund-raising records with the city's Campaign Finance Board yesterday.
Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, was among the first Republican presidential candidates to file a fund-raising report on Friday with the Federal Election Commission.
