O'Donnell files amended Delaware Senate campaign report
PHILADELPHIA |
(Reuters) - Christine O'Donnell, the defeated Republican candidate for the Senate in Delaware in 2010 and a Tea Party favorite, has filed amended campaign reporting forms to fix mistakes, her lawyer said on Friday.
O'Donnell's 2010 campaign finances are under investigation by the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice, following complaints filed last September by a group called the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The group accused O'Donnell of using campaign funds for personal living expenses, a claim she denied.
"This is simply the same CREW complaint that is obviously politically motivated that's been circulating for the past couple of months," O'Donnell said in television interviews on December 30.
O'Donnell said that while she did use as a legal residence a townhouse that was her campaign headquarters, she paid rent money to her campaign to reimburse it for that personal use.
"I am very confident that there (has) been no impermissible use of campaign funds," she said.
Her lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, said on Friday that the O'Donnell campaign has now filed amended reports to the Federal Election Commission because computer software the campaign used failed to distinguish fund-raising and spending between the 2010 primary and the general election.
Mitchell said the reports were very complicated documents, and historically O'Donnell has not had enough money to pay people like Mitchell to help her.
O'Donnell was one of many candidates backed by the conservative Tea Party movement in 2010 to challenge mainstream Republicans during the mid-term elections, gaining a high profile when she upset long-time congressman Mike Castle to win the GOP senate nomination.
But she was mocked during the campaign for a past interest in witchcraft, forcing her to make advertisements that included her saying: "I'm not a witch."
(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Peter Bohan)
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