{"id":1980087,"date":"2023-07-21T22:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T02:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jill-steins-court-review-denied-and-2016-campaign-must-repay-175000-used-after-nomination\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T22:26:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T02:26:41","slug":"jill-steins-court-review-denied-and-2016-campaign-must-repay-175000-used-after-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jill-steins-court-review-denied-and-2016-campaign-must-repay-175000-used-after-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Stein&#8217;s court appeal denied, 2016 campaign to repay $175,000 spent post-nomination."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjill-steins-court-review-denied-and-2016-campaign-must-repay-175000-used-after-nomination%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1980087&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Jill Stein Ordered to Repay Funds by\u2064 Federal Election Commission<\/h2>\n<p>In a recent ruling, former Green Party\u2064 candidate\u200d Jill Stein \u200dhas been ordered \u2064by a judge to repay funds she\u200b received during the \u20632016 presidential primaries. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has declared that Stein must follow the Federal Election Commission&#8217;s order to repay $175,272 that was used to finance her campaign beyond the\u2062 eligible time period.<\/p>\n<h3>The FEC&#8217;s Findings<\/h3>\n<p>The FEC found \u2064that Stein\u2063 continued to use taxpayer dollars\u2064 to fund her campaign past the usage deadline. According to an audit of \u2062her accounts, \u2063Stein received \u200ca total of $590,936 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayoral-candidates-ramp-up-fighting-a-month-before-primary\/\" title=\"NYC Mayoral Candidates Ramp Up Fighting a Month Before Primary\">matching funds<\/a> during\u2064 the\u200b 2016 primary and accepted a payment of $134,900 in January 2017 that she was\u2062 not\u200b supposed to\u2063 receive.\u200d The FEC has\u200c demanded that\u2064 Stein \u2064repay the\u2064 $175,272, which includes the \u200d$134,900 payment and\u200c the extra money her campaign had on hand after the \u200cpresidential campaign.<\/p>\n<h3>Stein&#8217;s\u2062 Argument\u2063 and the Court&#8217;s Decision<\/h3>\n<p>Stein received the Green Party nomination on August\u200d 6, 2016, and\u2062 her campaign raised funds \u200dafter gaining the nomination. However, the FEC asserted \u2063that this \u2064money\u2064 was improperly used. Stein failed to \u2062contest the FEC&#8217;s \u2062audit on time, which could have shown that the funds were used for \u2063campaign \u2062winding down costs and potentially offset her \u200brepayment obligation. Stein and her campaign\u200b committee filed \u200da petition to review the order,\u200b arguing that the cutoff point should\u2064 have been the deadline \u200bfor the Peace and Freedom Party nomination, which \u2062she was also seeking. However, the\u200c FEC \u2062deemed this argument\u200b invalid, as the Peace and Freedom Party&#8217;s nominating process deadline\u2063 was in \u2062July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Judge\u200b Gregory G. \u200dKatsas wrote \u2063in the opinion that Stein&#8217;s\u2063 efforts to\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-no-labels-may-have-no-cash-and-no-plan\/\" title=\"No Labels: No Money, No Strategy\">gain ballot access<\/a> in\u200b various\u2063 states\u2063 until\u2062 September\u200b 9, 2016, were not sufficient to justify the use of \u2064taxpayer money. The court upheld the FEC&#8217;s ruling, stating that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jill-steins-court-review-denied-and-2016-campaign-must-repay-175000-used-after-nomination\/\" title=\"Jill Stein's court appeal denied, 2016 campaign to repay 5,000 spent post-nomination.\">matching payment period definition<\/a> \u200dwas constitutional as\u2062 applied to Stein and\u2063 that the FEC&#8217;s forfeiture holding was not arbitrary.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be\u2062 seen how Stein will respond to the court&#8217;s decision and the \u2062order\u200b to repay the funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Stein, ex-Green Party candidate, must repay $175,272 received during the 2016 primaries, as ordered by a judge on Friday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that Stein must comply with the Federal Election Commission&#8217;s demand for repayment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1980088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}