Cranston Campaign Committee Fined $1,500

California Sen. Alan Cranston’s 1984 presidential campaign committee has agreed to pay a $1,500 civil fine for filing incomplete debt reports, the Federal Election Commission said Tuesday.

Cranston’s committee argued that it had made good-faith efforts to comply with the FEC’s record-keeping requirements and eventually gave the agency all the information it demanded.

FEC auditors said that the committee had filed a report in January, 1984, that left blank the information on debts and failed in a subsequent report to list loans it had taken out.