Newly-Elected Lawmaker’s Donations Questioned

Rep.-elect Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) has been asked by the Federal Election Commission “to respond to a series of questions for omitting or mislabeling more than $93,000 in campaign contributions, which Curbelo has blamed on a computer software problem,” the Miami Herald reports.

“t’s not uncommon for the FEC to ask campaigns to clean up their financial reports. But Curbelo’s reporting missteps were noteworthy because of the large amount of contributions in question so close to Nov. 4 election. Among other things, more than $50,000 in contributions from political action committees were omitted. More than $40,500 were mislabeled, including $5,000 from KochPAC, run by billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch.”