Rep. Kathleen Rice, a leading name to replace former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, could be dogged in the coming months by a batch of potential campaign finance violations involving her old district attorney campaign account.
Rice never deactivated the account from when she was elected Nassau County district attorney after she lost to Scheiderman in the 2010 Democratic primary for state attorney general. Since winning election to the House in New York’s 4th District in 2014, she has subsequently spent thousands of dollars from the DA campaign account on ads, consulting services, and donations to local Democratic groups that have actively worked on her elections to the House, according to a report by Crain’s New York.
Federal Elections Commission rules prohibit candidates for federal office from using leftover money from old local campaigns — such as Rice’s DA campaign account — for their federal office campaigns….
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Many of us will waiting to see if former US Attorney Prett Bharara wants to run for the NY State AG job…..
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