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"Bernie Sanders received a warning from the Federal Election Commission, citing problems with his campaign's February finance report.

The letter states the report lists amounts of contributions, receipts, expenses and disbursements that "appear to be incorrect."

The letter also cites possible impermissible contributions that exceed the allowed limit per election cycle ($2,700 for individuals) along with donations that come from outside the United States and from unregistered political committees.

The FEC sent the letter Thursday to the campaign asking for more information regarding the report filed Feb. 20. The letter warned: "Failure to adequately respond by the response date noted above could result in an audit or enforcement action."

The Sanders campaign has until March 31 to answer the FEC's request.

Sanders campaign spokesman Michael Briggs wrote in an email that such inquiries are "standard" and the campaign would address the FEC's questions. He noted that 85,391-page report covering the month of January listed over 125,000 separate contributions.

"Inevitably there are questions that the FEC staff will have," Briggs wrote Friday afternoon in an email.

Hillary Clinton, Sanders' opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination, submitted a 18,642-page report for the same filing period. The FEC had not questioned the Clinton campaign's report as of Friday afternoon.

Briggs said the contributions in question involved about 200 donors who appeared to have gone over the contribution limit.

"This happens all the time in campaigns, and the FEC’s rules explicitly allow 60-days from receipt of an over-the-limit contribution for campaigns to remedy the excessive portion of the contribution," Briggs wrote."

http://www.burlingtonfreepress...tributions/80985898/

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Oh!  The coincidence!

This

impermissible contributions that exceed the allowed limit per election cycle ($2,700 for individuals)

And this from: Ol Bern hisself *

The average donation to Sanders during the past three months was $27.16.

which sounds like more than one individual contributor may have donated $27 x 100 times.  **

* https://berniesanders.com/pres...es-record-donations/

** Ol Bern rounded the amount down to $27 in numerous speeches.

I must tread lightly here else someone might get the idea I may be prosecuting him rather than pointing out the facts. 

 

Saw the two aging faux hippies, Ben and Jerry, (is there anything more pitiful than an old hippie?) on TV shilling for Bernie.  Those two sold the company to Unilever about 16 years ago.  Its just another multi-national corporation that the Bern rails against. But, they do may great ice cream -- Cherry Garcia is my favorite.

jtdavis posted:

Why is every poster a right winger? Oh yeah, if every democratic running for president gets locked up, just maybe a republican will win.

Right winger is a name given me by socialists because I didn't vote for Obama and liberals called me racist.

I'm not going to vote for Hillary, so in the eyes of liberals, I have a gender bias and hate women.

The first black president.  The first woman president.  That's ALL I hear when it comes to qualifications.  And I hear from the LEFT.

Clop. clop, clop, clop!

 

 

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