'Mad with the credit card': GOPer hit with $100K fine for illegal spending spree
A Republican ex-assemblyman from California was hit with a $100,000 fine for going on an illegal spending spree with his campaign finance funds, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
William Brough, who served three terms in the state assembly, spent more than $17,000 on family vacations, clothes, his children's cellphone bills — and even a cigar humidor.
He failed to keep records of much of the spending, despite urging from his campaign treasurer, according to the Fair Political Practices Commission which leveled the fine after a four-year investigation.
“I need all of your receipts ASAP — you’ve gone mad with the [credit] card use and I have one silly receipt for every ten expenses,” treasurer JenEve Slater wrote to Brough in 2018, according to the investigation.
Brough's legal problems don't stop there — he's also been accused by four women of unwanted sexual contact, the LA Times reported.
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"The unusually large FPPC fine is the latest allegation of misconduct against Brough, who was accused of sexual harassment by four women in 2019, prompting Orange County Republicans to call for him to not run for reelection," the report stated.
"Brough said in a phone interview with The Times Tuesday that he is no longer in electoral politics, though he works as a political consultant and lobbyist."
Read the full report over at The Los Angeles Times.