Funds Stolen From Capps Campaign

[NewJerseyDem]

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/50_8/news/6276-1.html (subscription required)

A wave of campaign embezzlements washed up another victim last week: a former finance director to Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) who allegedly stole roughly $200,000 from Capps’ campaign in the past three years.

The former campaign aide, Jennifer Severance, has repaid $50,000 to the Capps campaign and has agreed to repay another $150,000, the campaign said in a statement.

At Capps’ direction, the campaign referred the matter to the FBI, which can investigate the matter and bring in federal prosecutors.

In the past year, Members of Congress and Congressional candidates from New Hampshire to Hawaii have discovered that once-trusted political aides have vacuumed piles of cash from their campaign accounts.