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State Ethics Commission finds reasonable grounds in Shaquita Maxwell preliminary hearing over $3,000 anonymous donation
Summary
The State Ethics Commission voted at its Jan. 15 meeting to deny a continuance and to find reasonable grounds that candidate Shaquita Maxwell accepted an anonymous $3,000 contribution and committed multiple campaign-filing violations, moving the matter forward for enforcement action.
The State Ethics Commission on Jan. 15 denied a request to continue a preliminary hearing for Shaquita Maxwell and voted that reasonable grounds exist that she accepted an anonymous $3,000 campaign contribution and violated multiple campaign-finance filing requirements.
Commission staff presented investigation findings showing a $3,000 cash entry on an April 30, 2024 campaign contribution disclosure that appears to be marked “anonymous,” and concluded Maxwell failed to open and maintain a campaign depository account and missed several statutorily scheduled filings. "The law is pretty clear. That's number 1, a violation," commission staff said when describing the anonymous-contribution allegation.
The commission treated a staff report and an email record of communications with Maxwell as the basis for a motion on a continuance request. The panel denied the respondent’s motion for continuance after hearing that Maxwell had not provided sufficient documentary proof of a…
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