supporting Democrats that accused other GOP members of similar violations. It was a unanimous 6-0 vote by the FEC, which wrote in a May letter to the PAC that the complaint was not a priority of the agency and pertained to a “low dollar amount.” The letter did not address the merits of the accusations.
LaLota, who was first elected to Congress last year, said in a statement that the complaint is poised to be one of “many unserious and partisan attacks” against him “from liberal dark money groups.” Jonas Edwards-Jenks, a spokesman for End Citizens United,The complaint charged that LaLota made a prohibited $1,000 transfer, among others, from his state committee to his federal committee. An attorney for LaLota said in a 2023Rep.