{"id":29313,"date":"2016-02-11T22:16:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/north-slope-mayor-pays-overdue-fine-for-campaign-violations\/"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:16:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T06:16:11","slug":"north-slope-mayor-pays-overdue-fine-for-campaign-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/north-slope-mayor-pays-overdue-fine-for-campaign-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"North Slope mayor pays overdue fine for campaign violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This article has been updated to correct an inaccurate headline that read &#8220;North Pole mayor.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> An Alaska mayor has paid an unusually large fine for campaign finance violations after regulators threatened to refer the bill for collection by the state attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Public Offices Commission in September approved a $34,970 penalty against North Slope Borough Mayor Charlotte Brower for \u201cegregious\u201d violations of the state\u2019s campaign finance laws. The fine should have been paid or appealed by November, reported the Alaska Dispatch News.<\/p>\n<p>The charge relates to reporting violations by Brower\u2019s campaign, including failing to file a disclosure report due in January 2015 that would have detailed activity leading up to the 2014 election and the end of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>APOC also says Brower provided incomplete information to the commission, including $5,500 in contributions that were not revealed by bank statements. They faulted Brower for a \u201cglaring lack of cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brower\u2019s payment arrived Monday, two days before the commission was set to consider referring her to the attorney general\u2019s office. The referral was an \u201cunusual\u201d step because most penalties are paid in a timely manner, according to Heather Hebdon, APOC campaign disclosure coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Brower\u2019s husband, Eugene Brower, was her campaign treasurer. He served as borough mayor in the 1980s, and his term ended in a scandal that landed two of his key advisers in prison for accepting kickbacks from contractors.<\/p>\n<p>Brower faces a recall election in April 5 on allegations that she misused borough funds for purposes like sending her grandchildren to basketball camp in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This article has been updated to correct an inaccurate headline that read &#8220;North Pole mayor.&#8221; ANCHORAGE \u2014 An Alaska mayor has paid an unusually large fine for campaign finance violations after regulators threatened to refer the bill for collection by the state attorney general. The Alaska Public Offices Commission in September approved a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-29313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29313"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}