The other shoe has dropped for Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ). His campaign committee has agreed to pay a $125,000 federal fine for misusing donor money and associated reporting violations, according to new Federal Election Commission disclosures.
in the 2020 election—however, he only objected to ballots from Pennsylvania, not his own state, where he had won re-election with about 55 percent of the vote.is more than double the penalty he incurred from the House ethics probe, which, in addition to the financial wrongdoing, also found that Schweikert impeded congressional investigators.
But those fines pale in comparison to Schweikert’s legal costs associated with the investigation. Since 2018, the firm handling the matter, Holtzman Vogel Josefiak & Torchinsky PLLC, has collected more than $1 million in legal fees from the Schweikert campaign, according toFirst, the congressional investigation was public knowledge at the time, but the FEC investigation has been a secret for three and a half years—until today.
“It’s annoying,” he added, “but it’s just the way it works…. I think everyone is going to be happy with how we’ve unwound the clerical mistakes.”Washington Examiner report, but the FEC did not. It was actually the Schweikert campaign who asked the FEC to open the investigation, filing a “sua sponte” complaint with the commission—“of his own accord” in Latin—and identifying its own violations of campaign finance law.
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