
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 31, 1990                   TAG: 9005310279
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

1984 REAGAN-BUSH CAMPAIGN PAYS FINE

The Federal Election Commission has accepted a $2,500 fine to settle a complaint charging the 1984 Reagan-Bush campaign with violating campaign finance laws, according to documents made public Wednesday.

The campaign agreed to pay the fine as part of a conciliation agreement that quells FEC allegations that the campaign failed to keep records to justify voter-registration and get-out-the-vote efforts paid for in part with public funds.

The FEC raised questions about the expenditures during its routine audit of the campaign and asked for records detailing the voter identification and mobilization efforts.

The campaign committee balked at the request, saying many of the documents requested by the commission didn't exist. In March 1987, the commission referred the audit to its legal staff for further action.

"The overall result of the committee's failure to produce these documents has been that no final audit determination could be made regarding the appropriateness" of the spending, the FEC's general counsel said in a memo included in the released documents.

The Reagan-Bush campaign signed the conciliation agreement last month.

- Associated Press

by CNB