The campaign for Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., spent hundreds of dollars at an amusement park in Mission Beach and thousands to a drone technology company, which the campaign disputes, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The Hunter campaign disclosed almost $120,000 in expenditures to the Federal Election Commission on Thursday, for a time period that covers Nov. 27 to Dec. 31, during which the campaign raised a reported $2,376. This includes $1,990 in disbursements to ByteSignal, a Missouri-based company that uses drones for aerial photography. The Hunter campaign describes these as “disputed charges.”
Hunter and his wife, his former campaign manager Margaret Hunter, face a federal indictment for allegedly using over $250,000 in campaign funds for their own personal expenses, and allegedly filed false campaign finance records with the FEC from 2009 until 2016. The couple have pleaded not guilty to each count.
“A 48-page indictment details scores of instances beginning in 2009 and continuing through 2016 in which the Hunters illegally used campaign money to pay for personal expenses that they could not otherwise afford,” reads the indictment. “The purchases included family vacations to Italy, Hawaii, Phoenix, Arizona, and Boise, Idaho; school tuition; dental work; theater tickets; and domestic and international travel for almost a dozen relatives. The Hunters also spent tens of thousands of dollars on smaller purchases, including fast food, movie tickets, golf outings, video games, coffee, groceries, home utilities, and expensive meals.”
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