Over a period of several years, he and his wife stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from his campaign account and spent it on personal items like vacations, gifts, groceries, oral surgery, and credit card bills
of using thousands of dollars in donor money to fund numerous extramarital affairs, including with multiple lobbyists and a Republican aide.
Margaret Hunter, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud in 2018 and cooperated against her husband, served eight months under house arrest. Duncan Hunter to conspiracy to misuse campaign funds in December 2019, resigned from Congress the next month, and was sentenced to 11 months in prison in March 2020.from Trump in December 2020.
Although the Justice Department administers criminal statutes of campaign finance law, of which there are relatively few, the FEC retains jurisdiction for civil violations. And so, a full two years after sentencing and nearly four years after the initial 60-count indictment, the FEC, in a rare unanimous 6-0 vote, finally moved on the Hunters.
But in contrast to the drama and consequences of the criminal matter, the civil comeuppance appears muted—a $12,000 personal fine for the Hunters, and a $4,000 penalty for the campaign and its treasurer, Republican operative Chris Marston.
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