[deport]

There maybe something there and then again the FEC may well drop any efforts. I don’t know where the investigations stand at this point.

She did raise somewhere around $7 million and spent most of it or so it’s claimed. I’ve not looked at the FEC filings.

However some of the charges seem to center around using some of the money to pay rent/mortgage or whatever on the domicle where she was staying. That is or isn’t permitted under the FEC rules depending upon who you are listening to.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101229/ap_on_re_us/us_o_donnell_investigation

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Although O’Donnell’s campaign has denied wrongdoing, she has acknowledged she paid part of her rent at times with campaign money, arguing that her house doubled as a campaign headquarters.

Federal law prohibits candidates from spending campaign money for personal benefit. FEC rules state that this prohibition applies to the use of campaign money for a candidate’s mortgage or rent “even if part of the residence is being used by the campaign,” although O’Donnell’s campaign maintained that it was told otherwise by someone at the agency.

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[runninglips]

Thanks for the reply, it sounds like a “petty crime” to me. Others do worse, most do similar things.

[Moseley]

Although O’Donnell’s campaign has denied wrongdoing, she has acknowledged she paid part of her rent at times with campaign money, arguing that her house doubled as a campaign headquarters.

That is absolutely FALSE. O'Donnell has DENIED paying ANY part of her rent with campaign money. (I realize, of course, that it is NOT YOUR fault that the news media reports it inaccurately. I am not jumping on you, only informing.)

O'Donnell's campaign has paid for a headquarters, which you can see is a real office environment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfzbGVJ2tCE

O'Donnell then paid the campaign, not the other way around, to use part of that location as her LEGAL residence. She actually lives somewhere else, which she does not disclose for privacy.