Rep. Anika Omphroy, a Lauderdale Lakes Democrat working for a U.S. Home seat, was hit with a $3,000 high-quality by the Florida Elections Fee for violating marketing campaign finance legal guidelines.
The fines stem from actions taken throughout and after her 2018 run for workplace, during which she ran unopposed. She was accused of falsely certifying her ultimate marketing campaign finance report, which was overdrawn by $50 and didn’t comprise small contributions of $100 made by herself that have been mirrored in financial institution information.
Omphroy wasn’t current for the Fee listening to Tuesday.
It’s not the primary time Omphroy has been assessed fines by the elections panel. The Fee handed down a $2,000 high-quality in Could for disregarding marketing campaign finance reporting necessities after her 2020 marketing campaign. She’s additionally below investigation by Miami-Dade State Lawyer Katherine Fernandez Rundle for violating election legal guidelines.
Fee Chairman Nicholas Primrose, a former common counsel for ex-Gov. Rick Scott, famous Omphroy’s sample of receiving election complaints, earlier than transferring ahead with the utmost $3,000 high-quality.
“We’re nonetheless coping with the ramifications of Rep. Omphroy’s (2018) election. I feel that is in all probability the final one we’ll see,” Primrose mentioned. “This has bought to be at the very least the 10th case I do know we’ve had from Rep. Omphroy.”
The Fee additionally issued a $3,000 high-quality in opposition to former Rep. Patrick Henry, a Daytona Seashore Democrat. Henry was elected in 2016 earlier than dropping to Rep. Elizabeth Fetterhoff in 2018 by 61 votes. Henry was additionally alleged to have overdrawn his marketing campaign account by $200 and submitted false certification experiences of his marketing campaign finance information.
Commissioner Jason Todd Allen initially steered a smaller high-quality be assessed to Henry based mostly on the small quantity at challenge, however Commissioner Carlos Lopez-Cantera, a former Lieutenant Governor below Scott, insisted on the utmost high-quality.
“This candidate was a reliable candidate. They raised and spent $112,000 {dollars}. It was an actual candidacy, it wasn’t some fluke candidacy,” Lopez-Cantera mentioned. “They have been notified. That they had the chance to be right here and plead their case. They didn’t assume it was vital sufficient to be right here in order that’s why I made the advice.”
A proper order assessing the fines might be issued by the FEC in each circumstances in about 15 days, Primrose mentioned.
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