![]() Other politicians had found ways to report itemized campaign expenses. In these instances, ELEC called Scutari’s office, Donohue said, and they were about corrections that didn’t have to do with reimbursements. Joe Donohue, deputy director at ELEC, checked with the watchdog agency’s compliance staff, who found records of two calls with Scutari’s office in the past seven years. it's been two years that there was a sub-payee list, but there wasn't any way to do it before the last two years." My treasurer tells me that this is a recent thing. "He has notes of every time he called and they told him to do the reports exactly the way he did them. "My treasurer for 15 years was a certified public accountant," Scutari said. I've done everything exactly by the book as I was told for all these years." "No one ever told us that what we did wasn't exactly accurate, and our reimbursements are to the penny, and we have obviously backup and justification for every single one," Scutari told on Tuesday, referring to the earlier reports. This time, the campaign included a “sub payee" list under the listed reimbursements. This time around, in a pre-primary report filed on May 8, Scutari’s campaign reported that he reimbursed himself and his staff for roughly $14,000 of the $23,000 in spending that occurred between October 2022 and the end of April 2023. In prior filings, when Scutari or staff members paid for campaign expenses themselves and then received reimbursement, the details of the spending - including the names of vendors and the amounts of the individual expenses - were not reported. ![]() Murphy's NJ Supreme Court nominee?īreaking a pattern of more than 15 years, Senate President Nicholas Scutari provided details in his latest campaign finance report about some of the vendors his campaign recently used and how much they received, after reported that Scutari had failed to properly report the details of roughly $600,000 worth of expenses in the past. Watch Video: Who is Michael Noriega, Gov.
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