The Post found that among contributions to Todd’s 2016 campaign that were properly recorded, there were dozens of contributions greater than the legal limit of $500 per individual or business. Todd, campaign treasurer Ben Soto and Everett Hamilton, the head of a public relations firm who volunteered for Todd’s campaign, declined to discuss those contributions. Wesley Williams, a spokesman for the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance, would not comment directly on the agency’s oversight of Todd’s 2016 campaign. The campaign finance office also presented Todd’s campaign with lists of “Questionable Expenditures.”Among those were $25,000 in payments to Todd’s personal credit card account. Several council members, including Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), who heads the committee with oversight of campaign finance, declined to comment.

Source: Washington Post April 16, 2017 22:33 UTC