Post by pavel on Feb 4, 2016 5:56:52 GMT -6
State Treasurer Dennis Milligan agreed Wednesday to pay a $400 fine to the Arkansas Ethics Commission and receive a public letter of warning in a settlement of a complaint filed against him by lawyer Matt Campbell.
Milligan blasted Campbell for filing what Milligan called a "frivolous ethics complaint" that he said has cost him and his wife "tens of thousands of dollars and emotional distress."
Campbell said he wondered how Milligan could sign a settlement of the ethics complaint and then call it frivolous after the Ethics Commission found probable cause that Milligan violated campaign-finance laws four times. The commission has authority to issue fines ranging from $50 to $2,000 per violation of state law and to issue a public letter of caution, warning or reprimand.
"I think the level of the fine is pretty ridiculous," Campbell said, adding that he thought Milligan should have been fined $1,000 for each violation of state law.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/feb/04/in-ethics-case-treasurer-agrees-to-fine/?latest
Milligan blasted Campbell for filing what Milligan called a "frivolous ethics complaint" that he said has cost him and his wife "tens of thousands of dollars and emotional distress."
Campbell said he wondered how Milligan could sign a settlement of the ethics complaint and then call it frivolous after the Ethics Commission found probable cause that Milligan violated campaign-finance laws four times. The commission has authority to issue fines ranging from $50 to $2,000 per violation of state law and to issue a public letter of caution, warning or reprimand.
"I think the level of the fine is pretty ridiculous," Campbell said, adding that he thought Milligan should have been fined $1,000 for each violation of state law.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/feb/04/in-ethics-case-treasurer-agrees-to-fine/?latest