North Carolina Files More Than 400 Charges Against Shelby Nissan Dealership Employees

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7. +1. The contributions were for his business partner Rep. Vern Buchanan (R - Fla.)

The Federal Election Commission is suing a now-shuttered Jacksonville car dealership and its owner because it says employees were reimbursed for nearly $68,000 in campaign contributions to a Florida congressman, a breach of federal election law.

According to a complaint filed last week in federal court in Jacksonville, eight employees of Hyundai of North Jacksonville and their family members were reimbursed for making $32,700 in contributions to the campaign committee of U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan of Sarasota during the 2006 election cycle, and four employees were reimbursed a total of $18,400 for making contributions to the committee during the 2008 cycle.

In September, the commission found that there was probable cause that owner Sam Kazran used the dealership to make contributions to Buchanan, a Republican, in the names of others, and that the dealership made contributions over the single-contribution limits in both 2006 and 2008 cycles.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2010/12/21/jacksonville-car-dealer-target-federal-election-donation-probe/15920900007/