Former State Senate candidate withdrew campaign donations from ATMs and didn’t report how he used it.

From STLtoday.com:

Former state Senate candidate Rodney Hubbard and his treasurer withdrew thousands of dollars in campaign donations, often at ATMs, without documenting how the money was spent, the Missouri Ethics Commission said Tuesday.

The commission fined Hubbard, a Democrat, and his treasurer Joy Camp, both of St. Louis, more than $350,000 for their roles in violating multiple campaign finance laws related to Hubbard’s failed 2008 race for Senate. If Hubbard and Camp pay 10 percent of the total amount of fines, or about $35,000, and don’t violate campaign finance laws for two years, the rest of the fines will be wiped out.

The Ethics Commission doesn’t keep historical records on fines, but a commission official said the fine was the agency’s largest in recent memory.

The commission concluded Hubbard violated campaign finance law by not properly reporting $129,000 in campaign spending and $86,000 in contributions.

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