P-D:
Pa. law firm to pay penalty for Gephardt donations
JEFFERSON CITY– A Pennsylvania law firm is to pay $155,000 to settle allegations that it illegally funneled money to the presidential campaign of former Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt.
The Federal Election Commission had accused the Karoly Law Offices, of Allentown, Pa., and its president John Karoly Jr. of reimbursing employees for $13,000 of contributions to Gephardt’s campaign in 2003.
Federal law bars corporate contributions to candidates and prohibits people from contributing money under another person’s name.
I wonder what the attraction of the Karoly Firm in Allentown, Penn. was for a St. Louis-area Congressman running for President. Search engines yield no answers.
Since the reimbursements happened in 2003, I am assuming that they related to contributions to Gephardt’s nascent and never-gotten-off-the-ground 2000 run. The only other time he ran was in 1988.
