Posted on 03/11/2006 11:17:24 AM PST by at bay
Process servers are stuck, and $2.4M lawsuit in limbo
Officials say Chad Condit illegally took campaign money raised by his father.
WASHINGTON Chad Condit is proving to be an elusive defendant. The son of former congressman Gary Condit, Chad Condit is a target of a $2.4 million lawsuit filed by California's political watchdog agency. The regulators claim Condit and his sister, Cadee Condit, illegally pocketed campaign money their father raised.
But in the two months since the Fair Political Practices Commission filed the lawsuit, officials have been unable to reach Chad Condit to deliver legal papers.
"We are still attempting to serve Chad Condit," FPPC spokesman Jon Matthews said Thursday.
Although the lawsuit was filed in Sacramento Superior Court on Jan. 10, it can't proceed until all the defendants are served. Cadee Condit was served Feb. 12, Matthews said. Matthews declined to further characterize efforts to reach both Condits, who have lived most recently in Arizona.
Election law experts suggest the state agency usually has a significantly easier time contacting a defendant.
"The one thing you can infer is that the Condit kid is not cooperating," said Karen Getman, an attorney who served as chairman of the FPPC from 1999-2003.
Chad Condit could not be reached for comment Friday. A Phoenix phone number listed for him and his wife was not working.
Getman said the agency typically will file a lawsuit only after "there was some attempt at settlement." That a lawsuit had to be filed is unusual, Getman said.
Bob Stern, the commission's former general counsel and currently president of the Los Angeles-based Center for Governmental Studies, agreed that it probably is "very unusual" for such complications to arise with the mundane steps involved in a lawsuit.
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They're running a Baskin-Robbins in AZ? Bwahahahaha. That's so *funny,* seeing as how Chandra left her apartment with coupons for 2 free ice cream cones - from ... wasn't it Baskin-Robbins? Egad, these people!
9/11 took his POS father off the front pages. Typical DemonicRAT, of course. He was never charged with murder, was he?
Send these two after his sorry ass.
Woo hoo!! Call in the Dog!!
Well knock me over with one of his dad's butt-tickle feathers.
A dirtbag that's full of something that's not dirt and the rough consistency of a baked custard.
The hunt is on! Tally HO!
Like father like scum, eh what?
Why not ax his dad where the perp is hiding?
Scumbucket and son ping.
No he wasn't. The Condit camp is still trying to say a serial rapist did it, but I don't buy it.
Maybe the Condit Baskins and Robbins is in a suburb and not in Scottsdale proper.
LOL, another "Chad" bites the dust!!
CHAD CONDIT'S Do Larry King Live Denounce media as unfair and wrong Resign from my job that daddy got me Cash daddy's check Pickup daddy's laundry Double date with daddy Send out resumes Record details of everything for book Meet Anne Marie Smith for Mile Hile Club rendezvous |
Don't forget Gary's psychotic wife.
That's very neat! Does anyone know what Con-did-it's doing now??
I think, he's dodging bill collectors.
I feel sorry for his wife, at least I did during all his trouble. Hard to believe his kids have gone bad too.
With politicians, it's always about power and money. Family comes second or third.
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