Cet article est apparu à l'origine in the Boston Globe on June 6, 2023 and was written by Steph Machado.  

Below is executive director John Marion’s comment on the Rhode Island Board of Elections’s recent $3,000 fine against Councilman Juan Pichardo for violations of state campaign finance laws.

“Councilman Juan Pichardo failed to report, and misreported, more than $20,000 of campaign donations and expenditures during his successful run for the Providence City Council in 2022,” said John Marion, the executive director of good-government group Common Cause Rhode Island. “As a state senator, Pichardo sponsored campaign finance disclosure legislation and should have known better.”

“It’s good that the now-councilman took responsibility for his actions and that the Board of Elections personally fined him $3,000,” Marion continued.

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