The Massachusetts campaign finance law requires this office to review all reports to ensure that they are legal, complete and accurate. A routine review of your report(s) revealed the following issue(s) which may need correction, clarification or additional information to provide complete and accurate public disclosure of your campaign finance activity for the reporting period.

It appears you have not yet e-filed deposit reports for the following bank deposits:

Please e-file a deposit report for each missing item using Reporter 7 or the Gateway.

Your committee reported the following contribution(s) that appear to exceed the calendar year limit of $1,000 that an individual can contribute to a candidate's committee:

Please review your records. If an excess contribution was received, the committee should refund the excess amount to the individual.

The bank for each of the listed PAC(s) reported the following contribution(s) to your committee. Your committee reports, however, do not disclose the deposit of these contributions.

Please review your records. You will likely need to create a new deposit report to disclose this contribution. However, it is possible that the contribution may have been attributed to the treasurer or officer of the PAC, or erroneously attributed to a different PAC, in which case you would need to amend a previously-filed deposit report.

Your bank reported the following expenditure(s) with missing or unclear payee and/or purpose information:

Please update the above expenditure(s) in the Gateway.

The following erroneous credit card charges were reported by your committee. 

Please confirm that E-Z Pass recurring charges are no longer linked to the campaign account. 

Your committee disclosed the following contribution from an individual, however, it appears that it was from the candidate's committee account. 

For accurate public disclosure, please amend the deposit report to change the type of contribution from "Individual" to "PAC/Committee."  It is necessary to first delete the line item Paul Toner as an "Individual" and then re-enter as a "PAC/Committee" from the Paul Toner Committee, CPF ID# 16576.  Finally, it is necessary to file an amendment to submit the change.  Please contact this office for assistance.  

In accordance with a ruling by the Supervisor of Public Records, this letter and all correspondence relating thereto is a matter of public record as of the requested date listed below. As such, it will be placed in the committee's public file at that time. Please respond to this request within two weeks of the date of this letter. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions concerning this matter or if you need additional information to comply with this request.

OCPF recently launched the Gateway, a software tool within Reporter 7 to help resolve and manage issues identified by OCPF. Click here to access the Gateway and view current items for review.