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Ethics commission approves stipulation resolving campaign-finance counts tied to Mark Farrell committee
Summary
The San Francisco Ethics Commission approved a stipulation resolving eight campaign-finance counts involving payments between a ballot measure committee and the Mark Farrell for Mayor 2024 committee that the enforcement division says exceeded the $500 contribution limit and amounted to over $93,000 in prohibited contributions.
B. C. Matthews, the commission’s Director of Enforcement, told commissioners on Nov. 8 that an investigation found eight counts of campaign-finance violations involving transfers from a ballot-measure committee to the Mark Farrell for Mayor 2024 candidate committee. Matthews said the law imposes a $500 contribution limit for candidate committees and that certain payments lacked ‘‘full and adequate consideration,’’ meaning the transfers should have been treated as contributions. The enforcement division calculated the series of prohibited contributions at more than $93,000, excluding refunded payments.
Matthews said the case was brought to resolution…
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