Campaign Fund Cutoff Urged for LaRouche
Government lawyers want to cut off the flow of federal campaign dollars to imprisoned Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., whose past presidential bids qualified for nearly $2 million in taxpayer funds.
Federal Election Commission attorneys are recommending that LaRouche be denied 1992 matching funds because of his criminal record and past fund-raising abuses. The full commission was scheduled to consider the issue today.
The FEC lawyers said the commission is obligated to protect the public from a “pattern and practice of fraud relating to Mr. LaRouche’s fund-raising activities.”
Federal law prohibits convicted felons from voting, but not from running for office. A LaRouche supporter, Debra Freeman, said that denying LaRouche matching funds would, in effect, stop his campaign.
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