against Alsobrooks, demanding the agency investigate the candidate’s finances. The FEC, Americans for Public Trust said, should look into whether Alsobrooks violated federal rules by spending roughly $18,000 on fundraising expenses from a state committee tied to her role as executive of Prince George’s County, Maryland, only after Alsobrooks became a U.S. Senate candidate in May 2023.
The watchdog’s complaint zeroes in on $18,000 that Alsobrooks’s state campaign sent to Rice Consulting, a limited liability corporation that calls itself “Maryland’s top fundraising firm for Democrats and organizations.” The state campaign committee raised just $560 in 2023. On June 22 of last year, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser hosted a private Georgetown fundraiser for Alsobrooks that raised north of $100,000, the. That same day, the state committee for Alsobrooks paid roughly $17,000 to Rice Consulting for fundraising expenses, financial disclosures showed.