Florida GOPer Vern Buchanan Said FEC ‘Exonerated’ Him — It Didn’t [View all]
The Federal Election Commission thinks Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) either lied to them or has a terrible memory problem.
An FEC report obtained by TPM about allegations that Buchanan had his former car company reimburse employees for donations to his political campaign finds that there wasn’t enough evidence to show that Buchanan broke the law. Buchanan’s team had previously claimed that he was “completely exonerated” by the commission, citing letters from the FEC.
Not quite. The FEC’s general counsel report finds that Buchanan’s “lack of recall” about an affidavit his lawyers asked his former business partner to sign “does not seem credible.”
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