Former City Council Candidates Fined
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The city’s Campaign Finance Board is issuing fines to three former candidates for violating campaign finance laws, it announced yesterday.
Stephen Kauffman, who ran for City Council in the Bronx in 2005, was ordered to pay $21,152 for a variety of violations including exceeding the spending limit for the primary and failing to report expenditures in a timely manner.
Another 2005 City Council candidate, Samuel Taitt, who ran in Brooklyn, was fined $250 for failing to adequately document his expenditures.
A City Council candidate in a 2007 special election in Brooklyn, Wellington Sharpe, was fined $9,340 for exceeding spending limits in his primary and failing to provide documentation for an audit.
