Missouri governor to pay fee for using nonprofit donor list
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Republican Gov. Eric Greitens has agreed to pay a penalty to the state Ethics Commission for failing to report that his gubernatorial campaign got a donor list from a charity he had founded to help military veterans.
The settlement ends an investigation that began shortly before the 2016 election, after The Associated Press reported that Gretiens' campaign had access to The Mission Continues donor list and had raised about $2 million from people and entities that had previously given significant amounts to his charity.
After that AP report, Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Roy Temple filed an Ethics Commission complaint contending the charity donor list should have been reported as an in-kind contribution by Greitens' campaign under Missouri law. A consent order dated Friday between the Ethics Commission and Greitens said the commission found probable cause to believe a violation of law occurred.
"This isn't a major ethics violation," Greitens campaign adviser Austin Chambers said Saturday. "This is a clerical error where a minor contribution wasn't reported on a campaign finance report."
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