Jackson Campaign to Pay U.S. $122,000
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WASHINGTON — The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign has agreed to repay the government $122,000, ending a lengthy Federal Election Commission audit that had questioned how $700,000 in taxpayer subsidies had been spent.
The FEC said Thursday that most of the $122,000 was not properly accounted for. The Jackson committee won’t contest that finding and “will make every effort to repay the amount,” said Katharine Boyce, a lawyer for the Jackson campaign.
The campaign already has paid back $75,000 and must raise the balance.
Jackson ran “a grass-roots campaign and that makes it a lot more difficult to keep track of all the documentation that the commission would like to have,” Boyce said.
FEC lawyers earlier said $700,000 out of nearly $8 million in federal subsidies could not be accounted for adequately.
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