George Soros agrees to $8,000 fine for 2004 California election rules violation

National political activist George Soros has agreed to pay $8,000 in fines to California’s ethics watchdog agency for failing to properly disclose $500,000 in contributions he made to support a state ballot measure that would have curtailed the use of three-strikes sentencing laws against criminals.

Soros, a resident of New York, made the contributions to the nonprofit Drug Policy Action Network, which used it to support Proposition 66 on California’s 2004 ballot. Voters defeated the ballot measure, which would have sharply restricted the three-strikes law.

The state Fair Political Practices Commission disclosed the fine as one of several enforcement actions it will consider ratifying May 21. Those actions include a $400 penalty against Bobbie Parks, the wife of Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard C. Parks, for failing to disclose her personal finances as required by the state because she is a member of the Baldwin Hills Conservancy.

-- Patrick McGreevy

Comments

[Tom]

I am sure this is just the tip of the iceberg with this guy. Just think about how much this turd has contributed to campaigns which has been "laundered" under the names of dead, non-existent, or unknowing individuals.

[Frank Courser]

George Soros may have not reported his contribution on time, but he is a far cry from Three Strikes supporter Henry T Nicholas who Nicholas and his entourage generated so much marijuana smoke that it billowed into the cockpit, "requiring the pilot flying the plane to put on an oxygen mask," according to a federal grand jury indictment made public Thursday.

The indictment, issued under seal a day earlier, accused Nicholas of doling out drugs and prostitutes as part of a freewheeling lifestyle. Not exactly the example law & order I want my children to learn from! But worse yet his friends in the OC DA’s office Todd Spitzer and Steve Ipsen over look these minor details and support him! This may just be the tip of the iceberg alright! Is Nicholas out of rehab yet? I commend George Soros for his efforts to fix the costly and fiscally irresponsible Three Strikes Law!