It’s been 23 days since we first published our article on the (apparently) missing $169,000 from the Committee to Elect House Republican PAC (CTEHR). It has been 71 days since whistleblowers reported filing complaints about the mis-reporting.
As a reminder, the PAC is Chaired by Majority Leader Jason Osborne, its Treasurer (or TINO, Treasurer in Name Only) is Speaker of the House Sherm Packard, and its Vice Chair is Rep Ross Berry, who may be the PAC’s actual money man. Rep Berry is also the recent recipient of over $28,000 in CTEHR PAC money through his singularly owned RevT Strategies, LLC.
As we await the CTEHR’s restating of their campaign finance books (we are not holding our breath for fear of running out of oxygen), we at Granite Grok had a thought as to why we have yet to see any restating of the finance filings with the SOS’s office.
Rumors abound that the Attorney General’s Office is looking into this matter as well as other similar matters mentioned in our previous related articles. If that is the case, then the bank accounts of the CTEHR will be or already have been, attained by the AG’s office for auditing. As that happens, any modification of the campaign filings by the CTEHR PAC that didn’t occur to match with the PAC’s bank account(s) would make those who operate the PAC’s case even worse.
By the way, the CETHR had a fundrasier a few weeks back but they didn’t disclose their fat fingered misreporting of expenditures or spending money on “businesses” tied closely to the PAC (looks like money laundering).
And since this was before we broke news of irregular sums of missing money, despite complaints filed a month earlier, it seem unlikley that attendees were aware that some portion of their donations might just dissapear down a hole without explination.
We truly hope that the unaccounted-for money and the other issues plaguing those in and around the CTEHR can and will be explained soon.
