The prosecutors found that a traffic-signal company had paid many of his campaign expenses.
At present, he added, he is still in the hole about $2,000 from campaign expenses of $12,000.
They cannot use it to pay the candidate's campaign expenses.
The legislation would also require, among other things, that candidates or political parties report such payments as campaign expenses.
Book events would not have to be reported as campaign expenses, making it difficult to determine how much the publishers were paying for travel.
To get promising candidates to run, we offered to pick up all campaign expenses.
The defense lawyers put no witnesses on the stand, and never denied that the money had been used to pay campaign expenses.
Some lawmakers take an expansive view of what a campaign expense is.
Many of the candidates were asked to make financial contributions for their campaign expense.
They were also require to reveal detailed information on their campaign expenses.