FEC seeks $140K fine from Craig in bathroom case
Source: Idaho Statesman
BOISE, Idaho — Federal election regulators want former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig to pay $140,000 in fines and return nearly $217,000 to his campaign, arguing he misused the money to fund his legal defense after his 2007 arrest in an airport bathroom sex sting.
The Federal Election Commission proposed the penalties this week in filings to U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, D.C. In March, Jackson refused to dismiss the FEC's lawsuit against Craig alleging he illegally tapped campaign funds.
The Idaho Republican has been fighting the FEC's demands for more than a year, arguing his stop at the airport bathroom in Minneapolis fell under his official duties as a senator because he was traveling between Idaho and Washington for work, and therefore the legal fees could be paid with campaign cash.
The FEC argues Craig unjustly enriched himself by siphoning money from his campaign, rather than his personal bank accounts, to pay for lawyers in the case. Misusing campaign money for an illegitimate purpose is not unlike fraud, commission lawyers wrote, adding Craig's actions "undermine confidence in government."
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will be better if he stops attracting so much attention to himself. Then he might go away. AFTER he pays. 
But I still think someone owes him a BJ.
Next?
