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.

Your report disclosed the following contribution(s) from one or more committees that are not registered in Massachusetts:

Please review your records. If contributions from federal or out-of-state candidates and/or committees were received, your committee should refund the contributor(s).

The following contributions were reported with more than one person listed as the contributor:

In the future, please list one contributor for each individual contribution. If you need to attribute a contribution to two people due to a joint checking account, please include two separate entries on your deposit report which disclose the amount attributed to each person.

All expenditures in excess of $100 must be drawn directly from the committee's campaign account. The following expenditure(s) appear to include reimbursements for items over $100:

In the future, for compliance and timely disclosure, campaign expenses should be drawn directly from the campaign account.

Your report disclosed the following payments to vendors that exceed $5,000:

Committees are required to disclose subvendor payments if the committee paid the original vendor $5,000 or more in a calendar year, and if the original vendor paid any subvendor over $500. Please contact the above vendor(s) in writing to request subvendor information, and either file a subvendor report or provide OCPF with confirmation that no subvendors were used.

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.

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