Sentences with phrase «inappropriate use of campaign funds»

But Senate officials say the required State Police background check revealed a clean legal slate for the former Republican senator from Newfane, who for more than a year loomed as a target of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara over possible inappropriate use of campaign funds.

Candidates are required to make the disclosures to avoid the potential for secret payments to relatives, kickbacks to government vendors or other inappropriate uses of campaign funds, Lerner said.

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I think it would have been inappropriate for him, and certainly he would have been criticized by the McCain people and the press — and probably should have been — if on a political trip in Europe, paid for by political funds, not the taxpayers, to go essentially, then, and be accused of using our wounded men and women as props for his campaign.

Although the Democratic Party has consistently claimed that all the money it raises is used to beat Republicans, in an unethical, inappropriate and underhanded move, the Chair of the Democratic State Central Committee, along with the help of Malloy's campaign operatives, used more than $ 50,000 in Democratic State Central funds to directly bank - roll the anti-public education slate in Bridgeport against the pro-public education Democratic challenge slate.