Clean Elections fraud fight goes to court as Green Party candidates seek to block repayment

Attorneys for two Green Party candidates and the state commission are debating in Maricopa County Superior Court whether the commission can force the candidates to repay public campaign funds they are accused of obtaining fraudulently.
The attorney for two Green Party candidates accused of fraudulently obtaining public campaign funding and lawyers for the commission that regulates that funding sparred in Maricopa County Superior Court Thursday over whether the commission has the power to make candidates repay ill-gotten funding. Tim La Sota, the attorney for Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier, the […]
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