FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20463 

March 13,2012 

VIA ELECTRONIC & CERTIFIED MAIL 

Lyn Utrecht, Esq. 

Eric F. Kleinfeld, Esq. 

Patricia A. Fiori, Esq. 

Karen A. Zeglis, Esq. 

Utrecht & Phillips, PLLC 

1900 M Street, N.W. 

Suite 500 

Washington, D.C. 20036 

Re: John Edwards and John Edwards for President (LRA 743) 

Dear Ms. Utrecht, Mr. Kleinfeld, Ms. Fiori, and Ms. Zeglis: 

The Commission has considered the response filed on behalf of John Edwards and 

John Edwards for President to the Commission's repayment determination. On March 

12,2012, the Commission determined, after administrative review, that John Edwards 

and John Edwards for President must repay $2,136,507 to the United States Treasury. 

Enclosed is a Statement of Reasons that sets forth the legal and factual basis for 

the Commission's determination, and the accompanying vote certification. 11 C.F.R. 

§ 9038.2(c)(3). John Edwards and John Edwards for President must repay $2,136,507 to 

the United States Treasury within 30 calendar days after service of this Repayment 

Determination After Administrative Review. 11 C.F.R. § 9038.2(c)(3), (d)(2). Judicial 

review of the Conunission's determination is available pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 9041. If 

you have any questions regarding the Commission's determination, you may contact me 

at (202) 694-1650. 

Sincerely, 

^yj^/reRfXri^. Calvei 

Associate GeneraTCounsel 

Enclosure 
BEFORE THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

In the Matter of 

John Edwards for President - Statement ) LRA 743 

Of Reasons in Support of Repayment 

Determination after Administrative 

Review 

CERTIFICATION 

I, Shawn Woodhead Werth, Secretary and Clerk of the Federal Election 

Commission, do hereby certify that on March 12,2012, the Commission 

decided by a vote of 6-0 to take the following actions in LRA 743: 

1. Determine that John Edwards and the John Edwards for 

President Committee must repay $2,136,507 to the United 

States Treasury for matching funds received in excess of the 

candidate's entitlement. 

2. Approve the Statement of Reasons. 

3. Approve the appropriate letter. 

Commissioners Bauerly, Hunter, McGahn II, Petersen, Walther, and 

Weintraub voted afEinnatively for the decision. 

Attest: 

Date' Shawn Woodhead Werth 

Secretary and Clerk of the Commission 
BEFORE THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

In the Matter of ) 

John Edwards ) LRA 743 

John Edwards for President ) 

STATEMENT OF REASONS IN SUPPORT OF REPAYMENT DETERMINATION 

AFTER ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW 

I. SUMMARY OF REPAYMENT DETERMINATION AFTER ADMINISTRATIVE 

REVIEW 

Pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 9038(b)(1), on March 12, 2012, the Federal Election Commission 

("the Commission") determines, after administrative review, that John Edwards and the John 

Edwards for President Committee (collectively, "Edwards" or "the Committee") must repay 

$2,136,507 to the United States Treasury for matching funds received in excess of the candidate's 

entitlement. Therefore, for the reasons set forth below, the Commission orders Edwards to repay 

$2,136,507 to the United States Treasury within 30 calendar days after service of this Repayment 

Determination After Administrative Review. 11 C.F.R. § 9038.2(c)(3), (d)(2). 

IL PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND AND THE COMMITTEE'S ARGUMENTS 

John Edwards sought the Democratic Party's nomination for the Office of President of the 

United States in the 2008 primary election. John Edwards for President, his principal campaign 

committee, registered with the Commission in January 2007. Edwards applied for matching 

funds, and the Commission determined that he was eligible to receive matching funds on 

November 1,2007. Edwards received a total of $ 12,882,878 in matching funds from the United 

States Treasury. Edwards' date of ineligibility ("DOl") was January 30,2008, the day he 

withdrew fi-om the presidential race. See 11 C.F.R. § 9033.5(a). 

On July 28,2011, the Commission approved the Audit Report and determined that 

Edwards must repay $2,136,507 to the United States Treasury for matching funds received in 
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excess of the candidate's entitlement. See Attachment 1 (Audit Report). The Committee 

thereafter submitted a written response disputing and seeking administrative review of the 

Commission's repayment determination.' See Attachment 2 (Request for Administrative 

Review). The Committee advances three principal arguments in support of its position that there 

should be no repayment or, in the altemative, a lesser repayment. See id. 

1. The Committee contends that, because "a series of unprecedented and extraordinary 

events that occurred during the 2008 campaign," including the Commission's lack of a 

quorum and a shortfall in the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account, 

delayed matching fund payments to the Committee, the Commission incorrectly 

detennined that the Committee received funds in excess of entitlement. Id. at 1,6-8. 

2. The Committee contends that the Commission should allow the Committee to 

"re-allocate" actual and anticipated costs related to providing information to the 

Department of Justice ("DOJ") as qualified campaign expenses that are not winding 

down costs, or, alternatively, exclude these costs from the ten percent winding down 

limitation under 11 C.F.R. § 9034.11. Id. at 8. 

3. The Committee contends that $528,454 in payroll expenses were qualified campaign 

expenses. A/, at 1-6. 

After careful consideration, the Commission determines that none of these arguments has 

merit. 

III. LEGAL BACKGROUND 

The Commission's initial repayment determination was based on a determination that 

Edwards received more than the aggregate amount of matching funds to which he was entitled. 

11 C.F.R. § 9038.2(b)(1). When a candidate receives more matching funds than the aggregate 

amount of payments that the candidate is entitled to receive, the candidate must repay the excess 

amount to the United States Treasury. Id. 

' In its Request for Administrative Review, the Committee also sought, and the Commission approved, a 

request for an oral hearing pursuant to 11 C.F.R. § 9038.2(c)(2)(ii). The Committee subsequently withdrew this 

request on November 22,2011, and the Commission, therefore, did not hold an oral hearing. 
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Prior to DOl, a candidate is entitled to one dollar of matching funds for every matchable 

dollar of contributions received and submitted for matching. 11 C.F.R. § 9034.1 (a). After DOl, 

a candidate's entitlement to matching funds is limited to the remaining amount of the candidate's 

"net outstanding campaign obligations" ("NOCO") on the date of payment by the United States 

Treasury. 11 C.F.R. § 9034.1 (b). NOCO is defined as the difference between a candidate's 

outstanding obligations for qualified campaign expenses as of the candidate's DOl plus estimated 

winding down costs and the committee's total cash-on-hand, assets, and receivables. 11 C.F.R. 

§ 9034.5(a). To receive matching funds on or after DOl, the total of the contributions and 

matching funds received by the candidate on or after DOl must be less than the NOCO. 11 C.F.R. 

§ 9034.1(b). 

When the Commission audits a publicly funded candidate's committee, the Conunission 

determines the NOCO, and compares the amount of matching funds that the candidate received 

after DOl to the amount that the candidate was entitled to receive, to determine whether the 

candidate received funds in excess of entitlement. See 11 C.F.R. § 9038.2(b)(l)(i).^ 

IV. REPAYMENT DETERMINATION AFTER ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW 

After reviewing the Committee's Request for Administrative Review, the Commission is 

not persuaded by the Committee's arguments. Therefore, the Commission again concludes that 

Edwards must repay $2,136,507 to the United States Treasury. See 26 U.S.C. § 9038(b)(1). We 

reach this conclusion for the reasons set forth below. 

When a committee argues, during the audit or on administrative review of a repayment determination, that a 

particular expense should have been included on the NOCO Statement, it is arguing that the amount of its NOCO 

should be increased, which necessarily would decrease any potential repayment amount for funds that the candidate 

received in excess of entitlement. 
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A. THE COMMITTEE'S GENERAL OBJECTION TO REPAYMENT OF 

MATCHING FUNDS IS NOT PERSUASIVE 

The Committee first disagrees with the Commission's interpretation of the Presidential 

Primary Matching Payment Account Act. Specifically, the Conmiittee argues that no repayment 

is due because the Commission's regulations are "not supported by applicable statutory provisions 

and would lead to an inequitable result with regard to [the Committee]." Attachment 2 at 6; see 

also Response of John Edwards for President to the Draft Final Audit Rq)ort ("DFAR") at 4-6 

(June 13,2011); Response of John Edwards for President to the Preliminary Audit Report ("PAR") 

at 4-5 (Dec. 14, 2010). 

As we understand the Committee's argument, it contends that if the Committee received a 

matchable contribution prior to the candidate's DOl, it is entitled to a matching payment for that 

contribution, regardless of when it submitted the contribution for matching and regardless of 

whether the matching payment was made prior to or after DOL The Committee thus argues that 

the size of its NOCO at the time the United States Treasury actually paid the matching funds is 

irrelevant to the Committee's entitlement and that the Commission has "interpret[ed] the statutory 

language in a way that completely undermines the plain language of the statute." Attachment 2 

at 8. 

We disagree. The Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account Act instructs that **no 

payment shall be made [from the Treasury] to any individual... if such individual ceases to be a 

candidate," 26 U.S.C. § 9033(c)(1), except that the candidate "shall be eligible to continue to 

receive payments .. . to defray qualified campaign expenses incurred before the date upon which 

such candidate becomes ineligible." 26 U.S.C. § 9033(c)(2). The Commission's regulations 

interpret this provision to mean that an ineligible candidate without NOCO has no entitlement to 
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additional matching payments from the United States Treasury **regardless of the date of deposit 

of the underlying contributions." 11 C.F.R. § 9034.1 (a) (emphasis added). 

This is not an issue of first impression. The Commission has consistently rejected 

arguments similar to the Committee's and concluded that for an ineligible candidate to receive 

matching funds, the ineligible candidate must have remaining debts on the most recent NOCO 

Statement. See, e.g., 11 CF.R. § 9034.1(a)-(b); Explanation and Justification for 11 C.F.R. 

§ 9034.1,48 Fed. Reg. 5,224,5,227 (Feb. 4,1983); Mondale for President Committee Final Audit 

Report ("FAR") at 57-58, 64-68 (Oct. 28,1986); Dukakis for President Committee FAR at 31-33 

(Dec. 17,1991); Clinton/Gore '92 Committee FAR at 12-13 (Dec. 27,1994). To accept the 

Committee's argument would require the Commission to depart fi'om its long-standing 

interpretation of the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account Act. As the Commission 

noted at length in the Clinton/Gore '92 Committee FAR, the Commission has a long and consistent 

history of conditioning a candidate's remaining entitlement after DOl on the candidate's NOCO at 

the time the matching funds are paid. Section 9034.1(b) of the Commission's regulations states 

that after DOl, candidates may continue to receive payments only to the extent they have sufficient 

NOCO. The Commission considered this requirement in a December 1976 intemal 

memorandum proposing the rule that "a candidate shall be entitled to no further matching funds if, 

at the time of any submission for certification, the total contributions and matching funds received 

after the ineligibility date equals or exceeds the net obligations outstanding on the date of 

ineligibility." The 1979 Explanation and Justification for section 9034.1 explained that the 

regulation "follows the legislative intent of 26 U.S.C. [§] 9033(c)(1), which provides that 

payments are cut off to a candidate who becomes inactive, except where those payments are used 

to defray expenses incurred before the date of ineligibility. Therefore, if a campaign has no debts 
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for qualified campaign expenses on the date of ineligibility, no further matching funds are 

forthcoming." Explanation and Justification for 11 C.F.R. § 9034.1,44 Fed. Reg. 20,336,20,339 

(Apr. 4,1979). 

In 1983, the Commission revised these regulations to make clear "that to receive matching 

funds after the date of ineligibility, candidates must have net outstanding campaign obligations as 

of the date of payment rather than the date of submission. Thus, if the candidate's financial 

position changed between the date of his or her submission for matching funds and the date of 

payment, reducing the candidate's net outstanding campaign obligations, that candidate's 

entitlement would be reduced accordingly." Explanation and Justification for 11 C.F.R. § 9034.1, 

48 Fed. Reg. 5,224, 5,227 (Feb. 4,1983); see also Explanation and Justification for 11 C.F.R. 

§ 9034.5,60 Fed. Reg. 31,854, 31,868 (June 16,1995). The D.C. Circuit has upheld the 

Commission's regulation. LaRouche v. FEQ 28 F.3d 137,141 (D.C. Cir. 1994) ("[We] fail to 

discem why it was impermissible for the Commission to adopt a regulation that terminates 

post-DOI matching payments as soon as a candidate has received sufficient matching funds from 

private and public sources to liquidate his NOCO, whether or not they are so used."). 

Thus, the Commission rejects the Committee's argument that, based on the statute, the size 

of its NOCO at the time the United States Treasury actually paid the matching funds is irrelevant to 

the Committee's entitlement to matching funds. 

The Committee next argues that unique factual circumstances present in 2007 and 2008 

demonstrate that the Commission's position is wrong and that the Committee's asserted position is 

the only fair approach to determining the Committee's entitlement to public funds. The 

Committee's argument does not withstand scrutiny. 
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The Commission first determined on November 1,2007 that John Edwards was eligible for 

and entitled to matching funds. Under normal circumstances, the United States Treasury would 

have made the initial payment of matching funds to the Committee on January 2,2008, the first 

business day ofthe election year. See 11 C.F.R. §§ 9037.1,9037.2. As a result of a shortfall in 

the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, however, there were no funds available in the 

Presidential Primary Matching Payment Accoimt for the Treasury to pay to Edwards (or any other 

candidate) on January 2. See 26 U.S.C. § 9037(a). The Treasury did not make the first payment 

to the Committee until Febmary 14,2008. 

Edwards withdrew fiom the campaign on January 30,2008, making that date his DOl. 

See 11 C.F.R. § 9033.5. As of that date, as recounted above, he had received no payments from 

the Treasury and would not for another 15 days. 

An additional complication emerged when, on December 31,2007, the Conmiission lost its 

quorum. As a result, it could not certify Edwards' entitlement to any amoimts in addition to those 

it had certified earlier that month. See 2 U.S.C. § 437c(c); 26 U.S.C. § 9036. The Commission 

remained without a quomm until July 2008 and therefore was unable to certify Edwards' 

entitlement to any additional amoimts until that time, some six months afier the candidate's DOL 

The Committee asserts that but for the shortfall in the Presidential Primary Matching 

Payment Accoimt and the lack of a Commission quomm, it would have already received by 

January 30,2008 all but $2.9 million of the $ 12.8 million in matching funds it was eventually paid. 

Thus, it argues, none of the amount it would have received prior to DOl would have been subject to 

repayment for having been received in excess of entitlement. See Attachment 2 at 6-7; see also 

Response of John Edwards for President to the DFAR at 4-6 (June 13, 2011); Response of John 

Edwards for President to the PAR at 4-5 (Dec. 14, 2010). Thus, the Committee argues that the 
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Commission should change its approach and pay matching fiinds for all matchable contributions 

deposited by the Committee prior to DOl, because otherwise shortfalls in the Presidential Primary 

Matching Payment Account and unique circumstances such as the lack of a Commission quorum 

will shortchange committees, preventing them from receiving funds they otherwise would have 

received, or, in some instances, such as this one, requiring them to repay funds that they otherwise 

would not have had to repay. See id. 

The question, then, is whether, as the Committee claims, the unique circumstances of2007 

and 2008 require the Commission to ignore the plain meaning of 11 C.F.R. § 9034.1 and change its 

long standing practice and policy. We conclude they do not. 

The Committee's claim that section 9034.1(b) "would lead to an inequitable result with 

regard to [the Committee]," see Attachment 2 at 6, is incorrect. When drafting the regulations, 

the Commission considered that a shortfall in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund migjht 

prevent a committee from being paid the full amount that the Commission had certified prior to 

DOf. Explanation and Justification for 11 C.F.R. § 9034.1,56 Fed. Reg. 35,898,35,904-05 (July 

29,1991) (noting that candidates' receipt of matching funds "could be affected by the amount of 

funds available in the matching payment account"). The Commission nevertheless concluded 

that post-DOI entiUement would be based on the candidate's NOCO at the time of payment of 

public funds rather than the date the matchable contributions were received or the date of 

submission. The Commission's regulations provide that "[a]frer the candidate's date of 

ineligibility, if the candidate does not receive the entire amount of matching fimds on a regularly 

scheduled payment date due to a shortfall in the matching payment account, the candidate shall 

also submit a revised statement of net outstanding campaign obligations," on which basis the 

Commission may '*revise the amount previously certified for payment." 11 C.F.R. 
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§ 9036.4(c)(2); see also 11 C.F.R. § 9034.5(f)(3). If, therefore, a shortfall delays payment, any 

eventual payment will be based on any subsequent NOCO Statement, and this may result in a 

reduction even to amounts already certified by the Commission. 

In fact, the Commission treated every other 2008 presidential primary candidate who had 

already been determined eligible for matching funds prior to their DOl in the same manner as 

Edwards. The Commission conditioned those candidates' remaining entitiement after DOl on 

their NOCO at the time the matching funds were paid, notwithstanding the lack of a Commission 

quorum and the shortfall in the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account.^ See, e.g.. 

Memorandum from the Audit Division to the Commission, May Status Report on Matching Funds 

(May 30,2008). 

The Committee also contends that the lack of a Commission quorum affected the loan 

amount that the Committee was able to obtain from its bank. The Committee claims that it was 

able to obtain a loan equal only to 70 percent of its entitiement to matching funds rather than to 90 

^ On two occasions, the Commission has treated contributions received prior to DOl as if they had been 

submitted and matched prior to DOl, even though those matching funds were not in fact certified by the Commission 

and paid by the Treasury until after the candidate's DOL In both of those instances, however, the Commission was 

attempting, many months after the candidate's last possible DOl date, to remedy a fiiilure to find the candidate eligible 

to participate in the program prior to his DOL See Mike Gravel for President 2008 FAR at 2 (Feb. 1, 2010); 

LaRouche in '92 FAR at 4-6 (Dec. S, 1994). In Comm. to Elect Lyndon La Rouche v. FEC, 996 F.2d 1263 (D.C. Cir. 

1993), the court ordered the Commission to retroactively certify matching funds to LaRouche because the court 

concluded that the Commission had improperly denied his eligibility prior to his DOL In the Gravel matter, the 

Commission was without a quorum when Senator Gravel submitted his letter of candidate agreements and 

certifications in January 2008. Not until December 2008 did the Commission conclude that Senator Gravel was 

eligible to receive matching funds. In that case, since the Commission did not find Senator Gravel eligible until after 

his party's nomination, it used that date as his DOI since it was impossible "to ascertain, in retrospect, what choices he 

might have made had he been deemed eligible and received matching funds earlier and how he would have fared in the 

primaries." Memorandum from the Office of General Counsel to the Commission, Date of Ineligibility - Senator 

Mike Gravel and Mike Gravel for President 2008 (LRA 748) (Jan. 21,2009). In both instances, the Commission 

retroactively determined that the candidates' DOIs were the date of their parties' nominations and allowed them to 

treat contributions received prior to DOI as if they had been submitted and matched prior to DOI because proceeding 

on the basis of their NOCOs as they stood might have resulted in no payment, thus yielding no remedy for the delayed 

eligibility determinations. Unlike the LaRouche and Gravel cases, this case does not involve an obligation by the 

Commission to remedy an erroneous determination or failure to act on a question of whether the candidate was eligible 

in the first place. Edwards contests only the Commission's post-DOI entitlement calculation, not his eligibility. 
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percent, which it says would have been available had the Commission had a quorum. See 

Attachment 2 at 7. 

There are two flaws in the Committee's argument. First, the Committee submitted no 

evidence to document its claim that the lack of public fluids influenced the bank's lending 

decision. Second, bank loans secured by entitiement to public funds are simply altemative tools 

that allow committees to receive interim financing until they receive public financing. See 11 

C.F.R. § 100.82(e)(2). Therefore, the fact that the Committee's loan was reduced due to a lack of 

a quomm does not make a legal difference on the question of Edwards' entitiement to public 

funds. 

In short, regardless of whether the Committee was paid the fiill amount the Commission 

had certified prior to DOI, the Committee is entitied to receive public funds after DOI only if it has 

NOCO that those funds will be used to defi^y. The Committee's NOCO Statements at the time of 

payment appeared to support further payment of public funds, but the audit has revealed that the 

NOCO was in fact overstated. Consequentiy, the Commission concludes that the Committee 

received funds in excess of the candidate's entitlement. 

B. COSTS RELATED TO DOJ INVESTIGATION ARE WINDING DOWN 

COSTS SUBJECT TO THE LIMITATION 

The Committee urges the Commission to allow the Committee to '*re-allocate" actual and 

anticipated costs related to providing information to DOJ as qualified campaign expenses that are 

not winding down costs, or, altematively, to exclude these costs from the ten percent winding 

down limitation under 11 C.F.R. § 9034.11 Attachment 2 at 8-9. The Committee explains that 

A grand jury indictment was filed against the candidate on June 3,2011, which alleges several criminal 

violations of FECA. 5ee Indictment, United States v. Edwards, 1:11 CR 161-1 (M.D.N.C. June 3,2011). We | 

address these issues only to the extent required to address the Committee's contention that it should be permitted 

additional qualified campaign expenses or winding down costs l>ecause of its own expenses as a non-party in the 
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it is "involved in an extensive [DOJ] investigation and proceedings" and has had to incur 

"substantial and unanticipated expenses for its own representation in this matter, including staff, 

equipment and legal costs." Id. at 8. The Committee states that these expenses are not related to 

the candidate's criminal defense but are related solely to the Committee's representation. Id. 

The Committee states that the costs incurred to date are approximately $425,000, which includes 

"legal fees of approximately $320,000 in addition to approximately $86,000 in costs for 

equipment, staffing and related expenses ($21,800.97 for new computer equipment and software 

to secure [tiie Committee's] server; $37,305.43 for IT services related to above; $27,232.45 in 

costs for additional staff and services; and approximately $18,000 in expenses incurred in 

coimection with representation, including travel, lodging, and related expenses)." Id. at 8-9. 

The Committee also estimates that it will incur an additional $500,000 in future costs for several 

months of legal representation related to the criminal trial and post-trial appeals. Id. 

The Committee contends that these costs are qualified campaign expenses and should have 

been added to the NOCO Statement, but are not typical winding down costs because they are not 

related to the Commission audit or compliance with the public financing laws. Id. at 8. Instead, 

it argues that these costs are "essentially qualified campaign expenses that go beyond winding 

down costs." Id. It asserts that to the extent that the DOJ prosecution addresses the question of 

which contributions the Committee received, the "proceedings clearly relate to a core activity of 

the Committee." Id. If accepted, the Committee's arguments would increase the Committee's 

liabilities for qualified campaign expenses incurred after the candidate's DOI without exceeding 

criminal case, thus increasing its NOCO and reducing its repayment. We express no view on the merits of the 

criminal case. The indictment and the preceding grand jury investigation were conducted independently of the 

Commission's audit ofthe Committee. 
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the winding down limitation, thus increasing the amount of matching funds to which it was entitied 

and reducing the repayment for funds received in excess of the candidate's entitlement. 

The Committee's position cannot be squared with the Commission's regulations. 

Qualified campaign expenses are defined as expenses "incurred by or on behalf of a candidate or 

his or her authorized committee from the date the individual becomes a candidate througih the last 

date oftiie candidate's eligibility," 26 U.S.C. § 9032(9); 11 C.F.R. § 9032.9; winding down costs 

after tiiat date are also qualified campaign expenses. 11 CF.R. §§ 9034.4(a)(3)(i), 9034.11. 

Winding down costs are defined as "costs associated with the termination of political activity 

related to a candidate's seeking his or her nomination for election[.]" Id. And the amount of 

winding down costs that maybe included on a candidate's NOCO Statement are limited to the 

lesser of: ten percent of the overall expenditure limitation of 11 C.F.R. § 9035.1 or ten percent of 

the total of the candidate's expenditures subject to the overall expenditure limitation plus exempt 

expenses as of DOL 11 C.F.R. § 9034.11 (b). The winding down limitations apply to "[a]ll 

expenses incurred and paid by a candidate during the winding down period." See Explanation 

and Justification for 11 C.F.R. §§ 9004.11 and 9034.11,68 Fed. Reg. 47,392 (Aug. 8, 2003).^ 

Thus, the Committee asks the Commission to ignore its own regulations and exempt the 

Committee from the mles that apply to all other publicly-funded primary candidates. 

Winding down expenses in excess of the limitation may in some circumstances be subject to repayment as 

non-qualified campaign expenses, which is a different basis for repayment than that at issue here. However, if a 

primary candidate pays for winding down costs in excess of the limitation after the conunittee's accounts no longer 

contain any matching funds, such payments are not non-qualified campaign expenses subject to repayment. 68 Fed. 

Reg. at 47,409; see 11 C.F.R. § 9038.2(b)(2)(iii)(B), (iv). Based on the Commission's entitlement and repayment 

calculations, the last matching funds would have been exhausted from the Conmiittee's bank accounts as of April 30, 

2010. After that date, the Committee could pay for winding down expenses in excess of the limitation without 

making non-qualified campaign expenses subject to repayment. 11 C.F.R. § 9038.2(b)(iii)(B). 
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We decline the Committee's invitation. The Committee's costs related to the DOJ 

investigation are the kind of legal and staff costs that are usually considered winding down 

expenses, rather than costs "beyond winding down." The winding down mle "allows candidates 

to classify compliance matters arising from the campaign as winding down costs." See 68 Fed. 

Reg. at 47,393. Costs related to a govemment agency investigation are similar to winding down 

costs related to Commission compliance actions. Complying with investigative requests from 

DOJ or any other federal or law enforcement agency is a reasonable cost of terminating a 

campaign. This is particularly the case here, where the Committee states that the DOJ 

proceedings may address what contributions the Committee received, and allegations in the 

indictment of the candidate relate to violations of campaign finance laws. 

Moreover, the Committee's proposals are contrary to the purpose of the winding down 

limitations. The winding down limitations for primary and general candidates were part of 

several changes to the mles for winding down costs intended to avoid future disputes over winding 

down costs like those that had previously lengthened audit and repayment processes. See 68 Fed. 

Reg. at 47,390-91. The Commission explained that the monetary limitation "establishes a fair 

and readily determined amount to ensure that all campaigns are treated consistentiy" and that the 

limitation is "necessary to ensure that publicly funded campaign committees wind down as quickly 

and efficientiy as possible and do not inflate winding down costs" to avoid rqjayments. Id. 

Permitting the Committee to either "re-allocate" these expenses as a separate type of qualified 

campaign expenses instead of winding down costs, or to exclude these costs from its winding 

down costs for purposes of the winding down limitation, would not treat the Committee 

consistentiy or fairly compared to all other publicly funded candidates, who are subject to the 

winding down limitations. Moreover, instead of avoiding lengthy disputes over specific 
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expenses, acceptance of the Committee's position would require that the Commission expend 

resources to determine which specific expenses related to DOJ activity. 

Furthermore, classifying expenses related to DOJ activity as costs "beyond winding down" 

would create a new category of qualified campaign expenses incurred after the candidate's DOI 

that is not contemplated in the Commission's regulations. Generally, after DOI, candidates may 

use matching funds only for qualified campaign expenses incurred prior to DOI and winding down 

costs - subject to the ten percent ceiling. See 11 C.F.R. §§ 9032.9,9034.4(a), 9034.11. Nearly 

all qualified campaign expenses incurred after DOI are winding down costs subject to the winding 

down limitation. See 11 C.F.R. § 9034.11. The Commission's regulations include strictiy 

limited mles for other qualified campaign expenses after DOI for staff gifts and bonuses and 

convention-related costs. See 11 C.F.R. § 9034.4(a)(5)-(6). But the Commission has never 

created the kind of broad category of unlimited qualified campaign expenses incurred after DOI 

that the Committee seeks. Indeed, had the Commission desired to create a new category of 

primary election compliance costs that were "beyond winding down," it could have done so in 

2003, when it considered a proposal to permit candidates to create a legal defense fund for 

"enforcement matters and other legal proceedings," similar to the entity that may be established by 

publicly funded general election candidates. See 68 Fed. Reg. at 47,409. It declined to do so, 

and explained that "a separate compliance fund is not necessary" or appropriate for primary 

candidates because primary candidates may use private contributions for winding down expenses 

in excess of the limitation when they no longer retain matching fimds in their accounts. Id. 

Therefore, we conclude that there is no basis for allowing the Committee to treat both the 

fiill amount of the winding down limitation and an additional substantial amount for qualified 
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campaign expenses related to tiie DOJ investigation as liabilities on its NOCO Statement, thereby 

increasing the amount of its entitlement and reducing the repayment. 

C. PAYROLL EXPENSES PAID AFTER THE CANDIDATE'S DATE OF 

INELIGIBITY ARE NON-QUALIFIED CAMPAIGN EXPENSES 

The Committee argues that $528,454 in payroll expenses were qualified campaign 

expenses and should have been added to the NOCO Statement because the payments were 

intended, in part, to compensate staff for "their work prior to" the candidate's DOI and 

"out-of-pocket expenses incurred during that time frame," and, in part, "for their work and 

expenses post-DOI to close down the campaign." Attachment 2. at 1 -6. The Committee states 

that these payments "in every respect meet the definition of a qualified campaign expense." Id. 

at 2. 

The Committee's normal pay periods for January 2008 ended on January 15,2008 and 

January 30, 2008, but the Committee appears to have created an extra pay period that both began 

and ended on January 31,2008 with associated payments made on Febmary 7,2008. This payroll 

involved payments totaling $761,193 to 99 staff members, and associated payroll taxes. Of this 

amount, there is no dispute that, as reflected in the Audit Report, $232,739 constituted qualified 

campaign expenses.^ The Audit Report concluded, however, that $528,454 of these payments 

were non-qualified campaign expenses, and, as a result, did not include these expenses as 

liabilities on the NOCO Statement. 

In its Request for Administrative Review, the Committee argues that $320,659 of the 

disputed $528,454 is attributable to lump sum payments made to staff in lieu of itemized 

^ As reflected in the Audit Report, the Committee produced documentation sufHcient to verify that the 

$232,739 constituted staff payroll expenses incurred prior to DOI. Specifically, staffers were paid only half of their 

normal net salary for the pay period that ended on January 30,2008 and were therefore owed an additional $204,322 in 

ordinary salary prior to DOI. In addition, five staffers were paid only a portion of their normal net salary between 

August 16,2007 and January 30,2008, and were therefore owed an additional $28,417 in ordinary salary prior to DOI. 
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reimbursements for lodging, fuel, and meal costs, of which $213,773 was for lump sum payments 

for such expenses incurred prior to DOI, and $106,886 was for lump sum payments for such 

expenses incurred after DOL See id. at 4-5. The Committee asserts that the remaining payments 

at issue represent staff compensation. Specifically, the Committee argues that an unspecified 

portion of the disputed $528,454 was intended as a pay increase to compensate employees for 

additional hours worked in December 2007 and January 2008, prior to the candidate's DOI, and 

the remainder was intended as compensation for services rendered by staff as part of the initial 

week of the Committee's winding down period between January 30 and Febmary 7,2008. See id. 

at 2-3.^ 

As noted above, qualified campaign expenses are defined as expenses "incurred by or on 

behalf of a candidate or his or her authorized committee from the date the individual becomes a 

candidate through the last date ofthe candidate's eligibility," 26 U.S.C. § 9032(9); 11 C.F.R. 

§ 9032.9, but also include winding down expenses "associated with the termination of political 

activity related to a candidate's seeking his or her election." 11 C.F.R. §§ 9034.4(a)(3)(i), 

9034.11. Salary paid to committee staff after DOI is a winding down expense. See id. The 

Commission's regulations place the burden on a committee to prove that an expense is a qualified 

campaign expense, and candidates agree in writing to "obtain and fiimish to the Commission any 

evidence it may request of qualified campaign expenses." 26 U.S.C. § 9033.1(a)(1); 11 CF.R. 

§ 9033.11(a); see LaRouche's Comm. for a New Bretton Woods v. FEC, 439 F.3d 733, 738 (D.C. 

Cir. 2006) (holding that the Commission was not required to find that an expense was a qualified 

^ At various other points during the audit, the Committee has asserted that the portion of the additional payroll 

that was intended as a "salary increase" for the period between December 23,2007 and January 30,2008 was 

$205,182, and the portion that was intended to compensate employees for winding down activities after DOI was 

$187,567. However, the Request for Administrative Review does not mention these amounts, and it is unclear 

whether the Committee is continuing to maintain that these are the amounts associated with staff compensation. 
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campaign expense where the committee failed to produce any document by which the Commission 

could either quantify or determine the reasonableness of the expense). Here, we conclude that the 

Committee has failed to submit adequate documentation to carry its burden. 

1. Lump Sum Reimbursement Payments 

The Committee submitted forms for itemized travel reimbursements that it claims establish 

that 73 employees received no travel stipend or reimbursements for expenses incurred by them 

after January 15, 2008. See Attachment 2 at 4. The Committee argues that the 73 employees in 

question incurred travel expenses, and that because their expenses are not included in the 

documents attached to its Request for Administrative Review, they must have received 

reimbursement for their travel expenses in a lump sum. However, the documents provided 

simply establish that certain Committee staffers received certain reimbursements for travel costs 

prior to January 15,2008. They neither demonstrate nor permit the Commission to verify the 

Committee's claim that $320,659 of tiie extra salary payment of Febmary 7,2008 were lump sum 

payments for lodging, fuel, and meal costs that the Conimittee made to staff in lieu of 

reimbursements. The Committee failed to submit contemporaneous documentation to verify the 

purpose of these specific payments. 

In fact, the Commission has already included every reimbursement payment associated 

with the submitted forms as a qualified campaign expense on the Committee's NOCO Statement. 

And although the Committee redacted most of the information on the submitted forms, it appears 

that many of these reimbursement payments were made for mileage, per diem, and travel costs 

incurred by staffers in January 2008. Thus, the submitted forms contradict the Committee's claim 

that it was not in a position to process individual expense reimbursements at the time it made the 
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additional payroll disbursement and therefore was required to make lump sum reimbursement 

payments. See id. at 4. 

Of course, staff lodging, fuel, and meal costs associated with travel on behalf of the 

Committee are, when properly documented, qualified campaign expenses and, if incurred after 

DOI, permissible winding down expenses. The issue here is not whether the Committee's 

asserted rationale for the payments would constitute a qualified campaign expense - if properly 

documented. Instead, the question is whether the Committee has met its burden of providing 

adequate documentation or a verifiable basis to support its assertion that the $320,659 was paid for 

these purposes. On the basis of the scant evidence supplied by the Committee, we conclude that it 

has not. 

2. Staff Compensation 

a. Pre-DOI 

As noted above, the Committee also claims that it gave pay increases to staff for their 

increased work hours between December 2007 and January 2008 rather than "monetary bonuses." 

The Committee does not state, however, what amount of the additional payroll is attributable to 

this purpose. Moreover, the Commission's regulations expressly state that bonuses paid to staff 

after DOI in recognition of campaign-related activities or services are considered qualified 

campaign expenses only if they are paid no later than 30 days after DOI and are provided for in a 

written contract made prior to DOI. 11 C.F.R. § 9034.4(a)(5). Here, while the payments were 

made only seven days after DOI, the Committee has acknowledged they were not provided for in a 

written contract made prior to DOI. And while the Committee argues otherwise, we fail to see a 

distinction between money paid pursuant to a decision to recognize employees for their extra hours 

and "extraordinary work efforts," see Attachment 2 at 2, and a monetary bonus. 
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Bonuses are generally defined as any payments that are made "in addition to or in excess of 

compensation that would ordinarily be given." Black's Law Dictionary 194 (8th ed. 1999). The 

Commission specifically promulgated section 9034.4(a)(5) to prevent "publicly funded campaigns 

[from] paying large monetary bonuses after [DOI] upon discovery of excess public funds." See 

Explanation and Justification for 11 CF.R. § 9004.11,68 Fed. Reg. 47,390 (Aug. 8,2003). Here, 

according to the Committee, the extra payment represented an increase in addition to the salary 

that the staff was ordinarily paid and any reimbursements that the staffers were owed.^ See 

Attachment 2 at 2. Moreover, these pay increases were not included in the staffs ordinary payroll 

prior to DOI, despite the fact that the Committee appeared to have sufficient funds to include them 

in the ordinary payroll. 

We conclude that the Committee has failed to document that any portion of the payment 

was intended as a permanent increase to the staffs ordinary salary prior to DOI, and that the 

Committee has failed to produce a written contract made prior to DOI that provided for the 

monetary bonuses pursuant to 11 C.F.R. § 9034.4(a)(5). Accordingly, the Committee has failed 

to meet its burden of showing that these payments are qualified campaign expenses. See 

26 U.S.C. § 9033.1(a)(1); 11 C.F.R. § 9033.11(a); LaRouche, 439 F.3d at 738. 

b. Post-DOI 

The Committee submitted several attachments that it claims demonstrate that the 

Committee was required to have staff available to perform winding down activities. See 

' In a footnote, the Conunittee notes the existence of laws in several states providing that it is unlawful for an 

employer to fail to pay employees "their full pay for a pay period in a timely manner." Attachment 2 at 2 n. 1. 

However, the Committee does not specifically assert, much less provide contemporaneous documentation, 

demonsu-ating that, any employee who received compensation for these extra hours had a legal entitlement to such 

compensation. 
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Attachment 2 at 3. Again, however, the Committee does not clarify what amount of the 

additional payroll is attributable to this purpose. 

Specifically, the Committee submitted lease agreements, four UPS shipping labels, a 

schedule of 42 rental cars, and a list of payments made to four rental car companies. Id. While 

these documents may help demonstrate that the Committee was required to close down state 

offices and retum rental cars after the candidate's DOI, they do not demonstrate or allow the 

Commission to verify the Committee's claim that any particular amount of the extra salary 

payment was an additional salary payment to compensate employees for winding down activities. 

While salary payments (and related benefits and payroll tax costs) for staff members who 

stay on after the end of the campaign to perform winding down functions are legitimate winding 

down expenses, in this case, the payments do not appear to have been made as part of the 

Committee's ordinary payroll, but rather appear to have been part of an extraordinary "extra" pay 

period. They also appear to have been mixed with payments for otiier purposes, including 

monetary bonuses for pre-DOI work where the bonuses were not provided for in a pre-DOI 

contract or other documented decision. 

Finally, of the 99 employees who received a payment from tiie "extra" payroll, 14 received 

their normal pay in mid-Febmary for the Committee's pay period covering the first two weeks of 

Febmary. Given these unusual circumstances, the Committee should have produced written 

employment contracts or other contemporaneous documentation to verify the purpose of these 

specific payments. It did not. 

* * * 

We conclude that tiie Committee has failed to carry its burden of adequately documenting 

that any portion of the disputed $528,454 was intended as an additional salary payment to 
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reimburse staff for lodging, fuel, or meal costs, or to compensate employees for work performed 

prior to DOI or for winding down activities. See 26 U.S.C. § 9033.1(a)(1); 11 C.F.R. 

§ 9033.11(a); LaRouche, 439 F.3d at 738. 

V. CONCLUSION 

The Commission determines that, within 30 days of service of this Repayment 

Determination After Administrative Review, John Edwards and John Edwards for President must 

repay $2,136,507 to the United States Treasury for matching funds received in excess of the 

candidate's entitlement. 26 U.S.C § 9038(b)(1); 11 C.F.R. § 9038.2(b)(1). 

ATTACHMENTS 

1. Final Audit Report of the Conunission dated July 29,2011 

2. Committee's Request for Administrative Review dated October 3,2011 

3. Audit Division's Review of Documentation Submitted with the Committee's Request for 

Administrative Review dated November 30, 2011 
Final Audit Report of the 

Commission on 

Jolm Edwards for President 

Januaxy 3, 2007 - March 31, 2008 

Why the Audit 

Was Done 

Fledenl law requixes the 

Commission to audit 

every poiitieal canmaitcee 

estaUished by a candidate 

who receives public funds 

for the primary 

campaign.' Hie audit 

detomines whether the 

candidate was entitied to 

all of the matching funds 

received, whether &e 

campaign used the 

matching fimds Bi 

accoidance with the law, 

whetiier the candidate is 

entitied to additional 

matching funds, and 

whetiier tiie campaign 

otherwise complied with 

the limitations, 

pndiibitions, and 

disclosure requixements of 

the election law. 

Futise Action 

The Cammission may 

initiate an enforcement 

action, at a later tune, with 

respect to any of the 

matters discussed in this 

xepoit. 

About the Campaign (p. 2) 

John Edwards for President is die principal campaign committee 

for John Edwards, a candidate fbr tiie Democratic Patty's 

nomination fior the office of Pkesident of the Uniteif Stales. The 

Conmiittee is headquaHered in Chapcd Hill, Noith Cuxdina. Fur 

more mformation, see the chart on the Caidpaign Organization, 

p.2. 

Financial Activity (p. 3) 

• Receipts 

o Contributions Fkom Individuals 

o Matching Fiinds Reoeived 

o Bank Loan 

o Of&ets to Expenditures 

o Other Receipts 

Total Receipts 

• Disbursements 

o Operating Expenditures 

o Contribution Refiinds 

o Loan Repayments and Other 

Disbursements 

Total Dlsbersements 

$39,643,966 

7,404,083 

8.974,714 

967.088 

129.527 

$57,119,378 

$44,405,156 

3.720.268 

7.383.067 

$55,508^91 

Commission Findings (p.4) 

• Matchmg Fimds Received ui Excess of Entitiement 

(Fmding 1) 

• Misstatement of Financial Activity (Finding 2) 

• Failure to Itenuze Loan Repayments (Finding 3) 

• Stale-Dated Checks (Finding 4) 

26 U.S.C. 19038(a). 

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Final Audit Report of the 

Commission on 

John Edwards for President 

January 3, 2007 - March 31, 2008 

i 

ATTAnHMENT ' 

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Table of Contents 

Page 

parti. Background 

Authority for Audit 1 

Scope of Audit 1 

Inventory of Campaign Records 1 

Audit Hearing 1 

Part n. Overview of Campaign 

Campaign Oiganization 2 

Overview of Financial Activity 3 

Partm. Smnmarles 

Commission Findings 4 

Summary of Amounts Owed to the U.S. Treasury 5 

Part IV. Commission Findings 

Finding 1. Matching Fimds Received m Excess of Entitiement 6 

Finding 2. Misstatementof Financial Activity 20 

Fmding 3. Failure to Itemize Loan Repaymoats 22 

Fmding 4. Stale-Dated Checks 23 

ATTACHMENT L 

PAQE 3 OFJBLZ. 
Parti 

Backgromid 

Authority for Audit 

This report is based on an audit of John Edwards for President (JEFP), undertaken by tiie 

Audit Division of the Federal Election Commission (the Commission) as mandated by 

Section 9038(8) of Titie 26 of tiie United Sutes Code. That section states "After each 

matchmg payment period, the Commission shall conduct a tiiorough examination and 

audit of tlie qualified campaign expenses of every candidate and his autfaori2sed 

comnuttees who received-payments under section 9037." Also, Section 9039(b) of the 

United States Code and Section 9038.1(aX2) of tiie Commission's Regulations state tiuit 

the Commission may conduct other examinations and audits fiom time to time as it 

deems necessary. 

Scope of Andlt 

This audit examined: 

1. The receipt of excessive contributions and loans. 

2. The receipt of contributions fiom prohibited sources. 

3. The receipt of transfers fiom otiier authorized committees. 

4. The disdosure of contributions and transfers received. 

5. The disclosure of disbursements, debts and obligations. 

6. The recoidkeq)iiig process and completeness of veoords. 

7. The consistency between reported figures and bank recdnds. 

8. The accuracy of tiie Statement of Net Oatstanduig Campaign Obligations. 

9. Hie campaign's compliance with spending limitations. 

10. Other campaign operations necessary to tlie review. 

Inventoxy of Campaign Records 

The Audit staff routinely conducts an mventory of canipaign records before it begins the 

audit fieldwork. JEPP*s records were substantially complete and the fieldwork began 

immediately. 

Audit Hearing 

JEFP declined the opportunity fiir on audit hearing. 

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Part II 

Overview of Campaign 

Campaign Or^mization 

Important Dates 

• Date ofRegistntion January 5,2007 

• Eligibility Period October 31,2007 - January 30,2008^ 

• Audit Coverage January 3,2007 -March 31,2008' 

Headquarters Chapel Hill. North Carolma 

Bank Informatioii 

• Bank Depositories Three 

• Bank Accounts 17 Checking. 2 Investment 

Treasurer 

• Treasurer When Audit Was Conducted Julius L. Chambers 

• Treasurer During Period Covered by 

Audit 

Julius L. Chanibers 

ManaEemant Information 

• Attended FEC Campaign Finance 

Seminar 

Yes 

• Who Handled Acoounthig and 

Recordkeepuig Tasks 

Paid Staff 

' The period during which the candidate was eligible for matching funds began on the date of ceitifiGation 

of his matching fimd eli^ility and ended on tlie date tbe candidate announced his withdrawal fiom the 

campaign. See 11 CFR §9033. 

^ Limited reviews of receipts and expenditures were performed after March 31,2008, to determine whether 

die niiylkl««»'- was eligible to receive additional matchmg fiinds. 

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Overview of Financial Activity 

(Andlted Amounts) 

Cash on hand 9 January 3.2007 $0 

o C^trifautions From lodividuals 39.643.966 

o Matching Fimds Received 7.404,083'* 

o Bank Loan 8.974.714 

o Offset to Expenditures 967.088 

o Odier Receipts 129.527 

Total Receipts $57,119^78 

o Operatuig Expenditures 44.405.156 

o Contribution Refimds 3.720.268 

o Loan Repayments and Otiier Disbursements 7383,067 

Total Dtafam'sements $55,508^491 

Cash on hand @ March 31,2008 $ 1,610,887 

* JEFP received an additional SS.47B.79S in matching funds after March 31.2008 fiv a total of 

$12,882378. This represents 61 percent ofthe maximum entitlement ($21,025,000) a Presidential 

candidate could have reoeived in die 2008 cyde. 

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Partm 

Sununaries 

Commission Findings 

Finding 1. Bflbtchlng Funds Received in EKGCSS of 

Entitlement 

A review of JEFP's fmandal activity tiirough December 31,2008. and estimated wuiduig 

down costs indicated that it received matchiisg fimds totaluig $2,136,507, hi excess of tiie 

Candidate's entitiement. JEFP's StdKement of Net Outstanding Campaign Obligations 

(NOCO) imderstoted its cosh-on-haod, overstated Its acootmts pi^ble and windu^ down 

expenses. In respcinse, Connsel for JEFP (Counsel) stated tiiat the nayroU of Fdiraary 7, 

2008. represents a quaUfied campaign expense tiint shouid be induded m tiie NOCO. 

Counsel also stated JEFP's overall objection to the repayment of matehihg fimds. 

The Commission approved this finding. (For more detail, see p. 6.) 

Finding 2. Misstatement of Financial Activity 

A comparison of JEFP's reported financial activity to its bank records revealed a material 

misstatement of reported cash-on-hand in calendar year 2(X)7 through March 31.2008. 

JEFP understated its December 31,2007. cash-on-hand baUmce by $585,814 and 

undendated its March 31,2008, caah-on-band balance by $468,676. JEFP materially 

complied with the Audit staffs recommendation and aniended its most recentiy filed 

report to conect the cash-onrhand balance. 

The Commission approved this finding. (For more detail, see p. 20.) 

Findings. Failure to Itemise Loan Repajrments 

During audit fieldwork. the Audit staff identilfied loan repayments, totaluig $4344.469. 

that were not itemized. Although JEFP reported the amounts on the Detail Summary 

Pages and itemized them on Schedule C (Loans) and Schedule C-1 (Loans and Unes of 

Credit From Lending Institutions), it did net itemize them on Schedule B-P (Itemized 

Disbursements). JEFP complied with the Audh staff's recoimnendation and amended its 

reports to itemize the loan repayments. 

The Commission approved this finding. (For more detail, see p. 22.) 

ATTACHMENT L 

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Finding 4. Stale-Dated Checks 

The Audit staff identified 202 stale-dated checks, totaling $267,529, and recommended 

that JEFP provkie evidence that the checks are not ontstandmg or make a payment to tiie 

United States Treasury. In msponsei JEFP docuiiiented tiiat cortoin checks were nn 

longer stnle-dnted as tiiey eitiier hrd deaicd the bank or weie fiir amounts that were 

determhied to be not owed. As a result, the remahung 128 stale-ditfed checks, totaiuig 

$141,808, require repayment to the United States Tkeasury. 

The Conimission approved this finding. (For more detail, see p. 23.) 

Summary of Amounts Owed to the United 

States Treasury 

• Fhiduig Fhiduigl Matching Fimds Received in Excess $2,136,507 

of Entitiement 

• Fhiding4 Stale-Dated Chcdsa 141,808 

Total Due VJS. Treasury $2^78^15 

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Part IV 

Commission Findings 

Finding 1. Biatchlng Funds Received in Earoess of 

Entitlement 

A review of JEFP's fmandal activity tiuough Deceniber 31,2008, and estimated wmding 

down costs mdicated that it received matching funds totaling $2,136,507, m excess of the 

(Candidate's entitiement. JEFP's Stateinent of Net Outstam^g Campaign Obligations 

(NOCO) undbrstated its cash-on^hand, overstated its accoimts payable and winding down 

expenses. In response, Counsd for JEFP (Counsel) stated that tiio payroll of Febmary 7. 

2008, represents a qqdlified cninpai^ expanse that should be induded m the NOCO. 

Counsd also stated JEFP's overall objection to the repayment of motdiiag funds. 

The Commission iqiproved this finding. 

Legtf Standard 

A. Net Outstanding Campaign Obligations. Witiiin 15 days after tiie candidate's date 

of ineligibility (see defmition below), the candidate must submit a stateinent of "net 

outstandmg campaign obligations." Tliis statement must contam, among other thmgs: 

• the total of dl committee assets induding. cash on hand, amomits owed to the 

committee and ciqiitd assets listed at thoir fak moricet value; 

• tiin totd of dl outstandmg obligations for qudifiod campdgn expenses; and 

• an ostinuae of necessary woiding-down costs. 11GFR 99034.5(a). 

B. Date of Ineligibility. The date of mdigibility is whichever of tiie followmg dates 

occurs first: 

• the day on which the candidate ceases to be active in more than one statis; 

• the 30th day following the second consecutive primary in which the candidate 

receives less than 10 percent of the popular vote; 

• tiie end of the matching payment period, which is generdly the day when the 

party nominates its caniiidne for the generd electioir, en* 

• in the case of a catulidate whoso podty does not indra its sdeetfam at a nattand 

convention, the last day of the lost nationd convention hdd by a major party in 

tiie cdendar year. 11 CFR §§9032.6 and 9033.5. 

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C. Qudified Campdgn Expense. Eadi of the followmg expenses is a qudified 

campaign expense. 

• An expense that is: 

o incurred by or on t)efaalf of the candidate (or his or her campaign) during the 

perhd beginxung on the di^ tiie hdividud becomes a candidale and 

contioumg through the last day of the candidate's digibility under 11 GFR 

§9033.5; 

o made m connection with the catdulate's campdgn for nomiiution; and 

o not mcurred or pdd in violation of any federal law or the law of the state 

where the expense was incurred or paid. 11CPR §9032.9(a). 

• An expense inciured for tiie purpose of detemiming whether an mdividud diodd 

become a candidate, if tiiat uidividud subsequentiy becomes a candidate, 

regardless of when tiiat expense is pdd. 11 CFR §9034.4(aX2). 

• An expense associated witii winding down the campdgu aid terminating politicd 

activity. llCFR§9034.4(nX3). 

• MoneUu7 bonuses pdd after the date of meligibiHty fiir oarxunlttee employees aid 

consdtants, provided that they are paid in recognition of campdgn related 

activities or services; pursuant to a written contract made before the date of 

mdigibility; and, no later than 30 days after the date of mdigibility. 

llCFR§9034.4(aX5). 

D. Vdue of Cupltd Assets. The fan imaket vdue of capitd assets is 60 percent ef tiie 

totd origmd cost of the assets when acquired. A candidate may ddm a lower fair 

market vdue for a capitd asset by listmg the asset on tiie NOCO stateinent separatdy and 

deononstratiDg, tiirouglr documentatkai, the lower £dr maricet vahie. 11 CFR 

§9034.5(cXl). 

E. Entitlement to Matching Payments after Date of Indigibllity. If, on tiie date of 

ineligibility, a candidate has net outstanding campdgn obligations as defined under 11 

CFR §9034.5, that candidate may continue to receive matdting payments provided tiiat 

he or she still has net outstanding campdgn ddits on the day the matching payment is 

made. 11 CFR§9034.1(b). 

F. Winding Down Limiiatlon. The mtd amount of wudmg dnwn costs Jhat may be 

pdd for, ih whole or part, witii mctching fimds shall ooti exceed the lessor of: 

• 10.percent of the ovecdl expenditures limitation pursuant to 11 CFR 9035.1: or 

• 10 percent of the totd of: 

0 The candidate' a expenditures subject to the over expenditure lim?.tatiQn as of 

the candidate's date of indigibility; plus 

o The candidate's expenses exempt ftom the expenditure limitations as of the 

candidate's dateof mdigibility. 11 CFR §9034.11(bXl) and (2). 

ATTACHMENT_/_ _ 

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Facts and AmalyBls 

A. Facts 

The Audit staff prepared a Statement of Net Outstandmg Campaign Obligations as of 

Jantury 30,2008, tiie Candidate's date of ibeligibiiity (DOI). The Audit staff presentnd 

the audited stateinent that appears on the next page m tiie Prdinunary Audit RepocL This 

statement was based on the review of JEFP's financid activity ihrough December 31, 

2008 and mduded estimates for wuiding down costs thereafter. The Audit staff and 

JEFP agreed on all NOCO conqxmenis except for accounts payable for qudified 

campdgn expenses. 

ATTACHMENT__/. 

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John Edwards for Plrsident 

Statement of Net Outstanding Campdgn Obligations 

As of Januaxy 30,2008 

Pvepand Uuv April 30,2010 

Primary Election Caab-in-Bank 

Genenl Election Cash-in-Bank 

Acoounta Receivable 

Capital Assets 

Told AaselB 

LlaMMllei 

Plrunaiy Election Accounts Payable for Qualified 

Campaign Expenses S I/30/D8 

Refund of Genenl Election Contributions 

Loan Payable e 1/30/08 

Actual Winding Down Costs (1/31/08 - 4/30/10) 

Estimated WfaidingDown Coats (S/l/10-12/31/11) 

Payable to U.S. Treasuiy - Stale-Dated Checks 

$3,971,887 

3,321,290 

4SS.789 

29.134 

$2,313,509 

3.321^ 

8.974,713 

2,584,368 

M23.060 [a] 

72.583 

$7,778,100 

$18.689.723 

($10.911.623) 

TotdUabillties 

Net Ontslanding Campdgn ObllgHtions (Defidt) as of January 30,2008 

Paotnote to NOCO Statementt 

[a] Estimated winding down costs will be compared to actual winding down costs and adjusted accordingly. 

Shown bdow are adjustments for fimds recdved after January 30,2008 and tiuougjh Jdy 

17.2008. 

Net Outsumding Campaign Obligations (Deficit) as of 1/30/08 

Private Contributions Received 1/31/08 tiuoogh 7/16/08 

Interest Incoine Received 1/31/08 through 7/16/08 

Matching Funds Received 1/31/08 tiirough 7/16A)8 

Remaining entitiement as of 7/16/08 

Matching FUnds Received 7/17/08 

Amoimt Recdved hi Exoess of Matching Fund Entitlement 

($10,911,623) 

358,983 

22,110 

8,825,425 

($ 1.705,105) 

4,057^53 

$ 2,352,348 

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As a result, m tiie Prdunmary Audit Report, tiie Audit staff conduded that JEFP was not 

entitied to $2,352,348 of tiie matchmg fund payment ($4,057,453) it received on Jdy 17, 

2008. 

1. Cash-In-Bank 

The primary difference between the NOCO presented on the previous page aid those 

prepared by JEFP is the caah-io-bank bafamce. JEFP understated caih by $4.5 

million. Most of the understatement of cash represented funds recdved for the 

generd dection during the primary dection period. The understatement of assets 

caused tiie NOCO statements to show a larger defidt and matdting fund entitlement 

than was the case. The Audit staff and JEFP agree on the cash bdances presented in 

the NOCO statement. 

2. Accoutits Pteyabic for Qualtfled Ctoapdgn Eaipcnscs - PayroU 

Even tfaouglh JEFP's accounts payable figure on its NOCO was not accurate, the 

Audit staff and JEFP now agree on the amount of accounts paydile, except for the 

February 7,2008 payroll. The Audit staff's cdcdation of accounts payablo on die 

NOCO statement does not include $556,871 in payroll pdd on February 7,2008. 

Absent fiirther documentation, $556,871 is considered to be a immetaryJbonus pdd to 

99 employees. As noted in the legd standards, m order to be a qudified campdgn 

expense, monetary bonuses pdd after DOI to employees in recognition of campdgnrdattd activities or services must be pdd no later tium 30 days after DOI and 

provided for pursuant to a written contract made prior to DOI (11 CFR 

§9034.4(aX5)). JEFP representatives cenfirmed that (here were no written contracts. 

JEFP pdd staff twice mnutitiy from inception tiuougjh lanuaiy 30,2008. In January 

2008, tiie payroll periods ended on January 15,2008 and January 30,2008. On 

January 31,2008. anotiier pay period conduded. This payroll totded $761,193 and 

was paid on February 7,2008. The amount, m effect, tripled each employee's pay for 

tiie month of January. Throughout the audit fiddwork, the Audit staff made 

numerous requests for an explanation and documentation of this payroll. 

B. Prdunlnaiy Audit Report & Audit Dividon Rccommeiidatlfm 

1. First Exit CoBfiuvnce 

Tliis matter was presented to JEFP at the exit conference hdd on Febraary 3,2(X)9. 

The Audit staff provided its NOCO and workpapers supporting all NOCO 

components. 

Prior to the exit conference, the Assistant Treasurer responded that the purpose of the 

February 7,2008 payroll was to reimburse employees who had not been pdd their 

entire sdary due to limited funds avdlable begmning sometime in August 2007. 

Although requested, JEFP provided no specific details to explam how this payroll 

was cdcdated or what employees were not pdd their fidl sdary. At tiie exit 

conference, the Audit staff mado tiie Assistant Treasurer aware that decmnentation 

supporting this payroll had not been mode avdlable. 

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During the exit confiBrBnce response period, the Audit staff andyzed JEFP's payroll 

for tiie period Augnst 2007 through Janiary 2008. The review Indicated tiiat JEFP's 

explanation was mcorteoL Employees were pdd m full from August TXXP dmragh 

January 15,2008. However, dnring the foUnwing pay period, whieh ended January 

30,200^ einployees received half of tlieir nomud net pay.^ Therefiue, the Audit staff 

conddfa«d that portion of the Febraary 7,2008 payroll necessary to make up the 

difference m net pay plus associated employee/iemployer payroll taxes ($204,322) to 

be a qudified campdgn expense and mduded the amoimt on the NOCO m accounts 

payable. The Audit staff considered the remaining portion of the Fdmiary 7,2008 

payroll, or $556,871, a non-qudified campaign expense and not induded in the 

N(XX) payables. 

Subsequentiy, JEFP provided a second explsmition of this payroll. Tlie Assistant 

Treasurer indicated that as of January 1,2008, campdgn staff worked 24 hours a day, 

seven days a week, with the understanding that sdosy wodd be increased for those 

affected. The Asdstant Treasurer further hdicatod tiiat JEFP did not have sufficiant 

funds to pay the increased sdary on the nonnd pay dates in January and that after 

DOI, JEFP cdculated the totd amount due each employee and pdd the increased 

sakuy on February 7,2008. It is JEFFs opution tiiat tiie Febraary 7,2008 payroll 

represents a qudified campdgn expense, which was due at DOI and therefore should 

be induded m the N(X^O. 

With respea to resonrces not bemg availdue during Jhruuffy 2008 to pay the 

increased sdtiries, JEFP records indicate its average daily cadi was approximatdy 

$4.2 million for January, excluding generd dection contributions, which codd not be 

used fiir primary expenses. Fiirther, JEFP offered no explanation as to how the 

increased amount was cdcdated oc how and when employees were notified; nor did 

it provide any dociunentation for the decidon to increase sdary. As a resdt, the 

Audit staff did not accqit JEFP's explanation. 

The Atdit staff notified JEFP of its condusion by email and gave JEFP 10 days to 

respond. The email explained that $556,871, repiesentiiig eaaployee net pay and 

employee/en^loyer payroll tnxes, wodd not be induded ui the NOCO. Counsel 

objected to the notification by emdl and demanded a second exit conference. 

5 It is not clear why this payroll was reduced. As can he seen from die NOCO statement, JEFP appean to 

have iid fimds available to meet the paynH, even sedng aside Hie geneid election oontKbutions, which 

could not be used for primary expenses. 

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2. Second Exit Conference 

Althouglh not required, a second exit conference was held on April 2,2009. 

Pkiyroli 

The Aidit staff again infimned JEFP that $556,871 of sdary snd payroll taxes 

were considered nmi-quillifled campdgn expenses, exdudabln finmilhe NOCO. 

(Counsd offiBicd as a possible (tidod) explanation that oertahi staff may have 

traveled to state office locations in order to clean out the offices and return rentd 

cars. However, no documentation supporting tiiis explanation was provided. 

Agaui, tiie Audit staff provided JEFP an additiond 10-day response period. 

In response, (Counsd stated that m December 2007, SBFP determmed tiiat those 

staymg througih the end of the campaign would recdve a sdary mcrease, which 

wodd be paid out as permifltod by JEFP resources. JEFP intended this pay 

uicrease primarily to condensate staff for the fact that JEFP dispotdied s^ to 

many different fidd locations timnigbout the country fiir tiie January inimaries 

and caucuses, pladng them on an sround-tiie-dock schedule. JEFP slso desigoed 

the mcrease in pay to .cover increased costs that stolfois faicurred because they 

were on the road, bi addition, (jounsel stated that on January 30,2008, the date of 

ineligibility, JEFP had approximatdy 70 office and volunteer sites in severd 

cities in various states. JEFP had dqiloyed staff to these locations, where it was 

necessary to dean out and dose fidd offices. JEFP-determmed tiiat it wodd be 

more efficient to pay these individuds a finite amount uistead of askmg 

employees to Qim in receipts fiir reimbursomont. Aecordlng to Counsel, this 

wodd hove been a dbEficdt accounting pnxxss, which JEFP could more 

efficicntiy manage by a lump-sum salary payment 

A few days later, JEFP provided a sdiedde that tefiected JEFP's determmation 

that dl employees received a 31 percent uicrease m sdary between December 23, 

2007 and February 15,2008, which was pdd m one lump sum on February 7, 

2008. JEFP gave examples of three different employees and how this paychedc 

wodd have been dtocated between payable and wmdmg down categories. 

With respeet to the accounting buiden of paying travd expenses, JEFP had 

accoontuig procedures in place for Inndluig travel reinOnirsamimts. Thn>ugjbout 

the campdgn, the staff submitted tmvebreunhuiBemants. Some were induded m 

tiie NOCO's accounts payable. Tlie effect of a campdgn mcreasing sdary in lieu 

of payuig for travd reunbucsements creates additiond expenses for tiie campdgn, 

such as the employer's share of payroll taxes, not to mention the additiond tax 

burden placed on employees. While it is reasonable that some staff wodd have 

been mvolved m tiie office doseout process, it is not likdy that all staff, such as 

the chief of staff, chief fmancid officer or fmance director, took part ui tius effort 

The dose out took place after DOI when ody 14 people remamed on the payroll. 

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Estimated Winding Down Expenses 

In response, JEFP estimated it wodd spend a totd of $2,771,004 ui windmg dovm 

expenses for cdendar years 2009 tiirough 2011 ($969,972 for 2009, $959,972 for 

2010. $841,060 fbr 2011).^ For tiie period Jannary 31.2008 tiirou^ April 30, 

2010, estimates were converted to actud wuduig down expenses. Based nn 

JEFP's acbid speodmg fiom Jsnuory 2009 timmgh April 2010, the Audit staff 

cdculated that esthnoted wudmg down expenses for the period of May 1,2010 

througih Decemtier 31,2011, $1,423,060 may be necessary io wind down the 

campdgn. With the exception of the adjustment for storage costs, the Audit 

staffs remaining estimated wuiding down expenses sre very close to the amount 

cdcdated by JEFP. 

It shoiHd be noted that throughout the post-audit period, the Audit staff 

consistentiy modtored estimated windmg down expenses. Bank records and 

iqxnted activity are seviewsd in nnicr to convert estimnted winding down 

expenses to actud wading down expenses. 

JEFP's Overall Objectloa to the Repayment of Matdting Funds 

JEFP argues that the combuiation of a shortfidl in the Presidentid Primary 

Matching Payment Accoimt (Matching Payment Account) aid the lack of a 

quorum in tiie Cominission during tlie first hdf of 2008 put JEFP at a 

disadvantage witii respect to the recdpt of matchixig funds. JEFP argued timt 

matchable contributions recdved prior tb DOI shodd be matched regardless of 

whetiier tiiere are qudified campdgn expenses to pay, and conduded that the 

fdlure to match these contributions violntes the First Anssndment rigjhts of both 

the candidale and those hdividuals who contributed to the candidate's oommittee. 

With respect to JEFP's response, tiie Audit staff bdievei tiut under 26 USC §9033(c)(2), 

a candidate who has passed the date of mdigibility is not entitied to any further matching 

fund payments except to defray qudified campaign expenses incurred before the 

candidate became uidigible. The fact tiuit JEFP received contributions that otiierwise 

would be matchable does not determine whetiier the cardidate is digible for further 

payments. Tlie intent of diis section is to allow the candidate to recdve matching fiinds 

after the date ti ineligibility ody to pay debts fiir qualifind campdgn expenses. In 

inqdemontiag tiiis paovisiBn, the Cmamission considered both ddits incuned befiue the 

date of indigibility and neoesssry cnsts of wroppiog up the campaign. Il also esteblished 

a procediue to monitor whether the candidate still has qudified ooinpdgn expenses to be 

pdd prior to each post date of bidigibility payment, known as the NOCO Statement.^ 

Findly, the possibility of a shortage ih the Matching Paynient Account is recogmzed and 

an equitable distribution cdculation is specified in botii 26 USC §9037(b) and 11 CFR 

§9037.2. That eqdtable distribution ftmnda was followed. 

* In ics 2009 estimatns,lEH> included flonage costs of$18,000 for tfie next seven yean. JSBEP 

inadvertenfly Included tius same cost in its 2010 and 2011 estimaiea. The necessary adjustmentihas been 

made. 

^ See 11 CFR 9034.1(b), and 9034.5 

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Subsequent to the dste of ineligibility, campdgns are required to submit a NOCO 

indicating the campdgn has suffident net dd>t to justify additiond matcfauig fimdk. The 

last maidiing fund payment JEFP recdved was $4,057,453 on Jdy 17,2008. TMs 

paymeiac was based on a NOCO filed on June 25,2008 tiuit reflected net debt of 

$4,684340. However, as previously noted, tfaut NOCO ststemeut was misstated. 

There is no question that tiie combuiation of the shortfdl in tlie Matching Payment 

Account and the Commissum's lock of a quorum delayed payments. The Qmunission 

took all steps m its power to muumize the impact on dl matdung fund redpients. All 

matching fund requests recdved tfaroug(h December of2007 were processed sid certified 

while the Commission still had a quorum. Hiat dlowed the Treasury Department to 

begui making payments as soon as funds became available without tiie need fiir fiirther 

Commission sction. All payments certified by the (Commission before January 1,2008 

were paid as fiinds became ovdloblD between Febmary and April 2008. TUs pmoedure 

also dlowed campdgns to borrow fiinds unuig tha matching fiinds as ooHderal. JEFP 

used this avenue to bomiw $8.9 million in November aid Deceioher 2007, befine any 

payments oodd have been made under any drcumstsnoes. Even thougih the (Commisdon 

codd not certify any payments during the first hdf of 2008, matching fimd requests 

recdved after January 1,2008 were processed, snd the campaigns were Informed of the 

matchable amount Campaigns codd use those amounts as ooUaterd for loans if they 

desired. Fhudly, any additiond expenses incurred by campdgns as a result of tiiese 

drctmistances, sticfa as interest on loons or increased legd costs, wodd Have been treated 

as qudified oampaign expenses and codd have resdted in on additiond matching fiisd 

entitiement. 

In summary, dtiiough it is true that mddiing fund payments were ddoyed dnring tho first 

hdf of2008, tiie Aa and Commission's regdations are dear tiiat in order to recdve 

matching fund payments after the date of indigibility, a candidate must have net 

outstsnding campdgn obligations on the date that the matching fimd payments are made. 

JEFP does not argue that it had suffident obligations to justify tiie foil amount it received 

and agrees that it significsntiy understated its assets on its NOCO Statement The fact 

tliat JEFP may hove received contributions before the date of ineligibility that were not 

matdied or tiiat payments were ddayed fbr reasons beyond the contrd of the 

Conunission or JEFP, dues not diow JEFP to receive matchmg fiind payments after tiie 

date of meHgibility in exoessi of the omonnt of qualified eamndgu expenses tu be pdd. 

Based oe the above, JEFP was not entitied to $2,352,348 of the matching fimds payment 

($4,057,453) it received on Jdy 17,2008. Therefore, the Audit staff recommended tiiat 

JEFP denumstrate that it did not recdve matching funds m excess of its entitiement The 

Prdiminary Audit Report noted that absent such a demonstration, the Audit staff will 

recommend that the Commission make a determmation that $2,352,348 in matching 

fimds is repayable to tiie Umted States Treasury. 

C Comnittee Respuuse to the Prdimihary Audit Report 

In response te the Plrdimlmay Audit Report, Cemtsd related thd them wore ne major 

discrepandos witii tiie NOCO. Counsd continued to mjuntohi, ho'Bvever, that the entire 

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Febraary 7,2008 payroll should be considered a qudified campaign expense and not as a 

bonus. 

Counsd also restated JEFP's overdl objection to repayment of Matching Funds as 

discussed m its exit conference response on page 13 of tius report 

In addition. Counsel provided another explanation fbr the Febraary 7,2008 payroll and 

mcluded o chart tiiat categorized that portion of tiiie payroll in dispute differentiy from its 

previous exphmations. 

JEFP's Breakdown of That Portion of the February 7,2008, Payroll f n Dispute: 

Additiond Mdre-up Salary $44,917 

Winding Down Expenses 

Sdary January 31,2008 titatragjh Febmary 7,2008 $187,567 

Lump Sum Faymisat fiir Expenses $320,659 

Totd Sm.ld3' 

JEFP provided a chart that hdicated it reduced the sdary of six einployees in 2007. 

Although JEFP provided no documentation to support tiiis chart, it concluded that tiiese 

sut employees were owed $44,917 and thiut, at a ntinimum, this amount shodd be added 

to tiie $204,322 that tiie Audit staff reoogdzed as permissible make-up salary. 

JEFP hdicated tiut the remaiiunB portion of the Febraary 7,2008 payroll was fiir 

wudmg down costs, which are qudifiod campdgn expenses. Tho two mam components 

of tiiiese wuding down costs were staff salaries and lump sum payments made to staff to 

rdmburse fer traxel, lodguig and med expenses mcuned duru\g the month of January, 

and tiuough Febraary 7,2008t. 

Accorduig to die response, staff sdaries for die period of January 31,2(X)8 through 

Fdiruary 7,2008 totded $187,567, an avenge $3,552 per stdf. Lump sum payments for 

expenses totded $320,659, an average reunbursement of $3,239 per staff. 

Tlie Audit staff reviewed JEFP's response aid offieiB the following: 

Make-up Salary - $44,917. The Audit staff conducted a review of the avdlable payroll 

records for each udividud listed by JEFP. The payroll records supported a reduction m 

pay for the six enqiloyees, totdmg $44,917. However, one of the sU udividuds listed, 

(make-up sdary - $16,500) was not pdd on Fdiraary 7,2008. Therefore, any reduction 

in pay for this individud is irrelevant when discussing the February 7,2008 payroll. This 

udividud reoeived a payment of $7,675 for salary on February 11,2008 that had akeady 

been induded ui accoimts payable on the NOCX). As a resdt, the Audit staff mchded an 

additiond $28,417 ($44,917 - $16,500) as a qualified campdgn expense on tiie NOCO. 

* The amount in dispute is acbially $556,871. JEFP's total is misstated by $3,728. 

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WIndfaig Down Sdary - $187,567 January 31,2008, to February 7,2008. JEFP 

indicated that winding down salaries for the period averaged $3,552 per employee. JEFP 

ai^pears to be saying tliat this payroll represented sdary payments for ody 53 (of the 99) 

udividuds pdd on Fdmuuy 7,2008 ($187,567 / $3,552). JEFP has net provided any 

documaitation timt identifiea the staff members who were paid. This new exphmation is 

meonsistent with the fact that 99 mdlividnds were paid on Febraary 7,2008. 

Fbnher, if the average sdary per staff member ($3,552) is incorrect and JEFP meant tliat 

dl 99 udividuds were paid for wuidmg down activities during this period, it should be 

noted that 14 of these individuds remained on the payroll and received their nonnd 

sdary for this same period on Febraary IS, 2006 (pay period January 31,2008 through 

Febraary 14,2008). Tlie amount of that payroll has dways been indudnl in the NOCO 

as a winding down expense. Tlie Audit staff does not accept JEFP's explanation. 

Lump Sura Payment fou Expsiisca - $320,659. JEFP daimed that dl 99 mdividuds 

mcurred expenses fiir wuidmg down tiie campaign ($320,659 / $3,239). However, JEFP 

has not provided documentation demonstratuig tiiat dl 99 individuds uieurred expenses 

or retained any documentation supporting these expenses. 

The response stated that high-lcvd staff performed wuduig down duties such as 

orgonidng and archiving financid documents, contacting vendors, thanking donors and 

coorduudng with the candidates. It is udikdy these types of activities wodd generate 

reunbuised expenses. Agahi, tiiese high-level ensployees, 14 m totd, locdved theur 

normd pay covering the some period, llkdy fiir performing these same tasks. As 

inriirated above, the amount of tiieFdbraory 15,2008 payixdl (January 31, timonglh 

February 14,2008) was mcluded m ttic NOCO us a whicUng down expense. The Audit 

staff does not accept JEFP's explanation. 

Finally, incurring sdary and documented reimbursed expenses afier the candidate's date 

of indigibility wodd be considered permissible winding down expenses. Even if the 

Comnussion were to accqit JEFP's explanation with respect to the amount in question 

($528,454 ($556,871 - $28,417)), ttie NOCO stateinent presented on page 18 includes 

maximum allowable amount of winding down expenses. Induding this amoimt wodd 

requke an- adjustment to the reraainang estimated windmg dnwn expenses presentsd in 

tiut NOCO but wodd not offeet die amount of inntdihig fimds denxidned to be hi 

excess ef the candidate's entitiement. JEFP wodd still be required to moke a repayment 

of matching fimds, totalmg $2,136,507. 

Spedfically, based on JEFP's actud wuduig down expenses during tiie post indigibility 

period, tiie Audit staff estunated that JEFP will spend an additiond $1,216,981 ui 

wudmg down expenditures and reach tiie whdu^ down limit ($4,205,000) by August 

31,2012. As previously stated, should the Cominission accept JEFP's position on die 

remahung $528,454 tiie Audit staff wodd reduce estunated wuiduig down expenses to 

$688,527 ($1,216,981 - $528,454). As a resdt, assumiiig a constant levd df wuduig 

down spendin(g, JEFP wodd readi the wmdhig down limit by October 2011. The 

repayment wodd remoui at $2,136,507. If, however, tiie Conumssion does not accept 

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JEFP's explanation and JEFP spends less than the winding down estimate shown, the 

repayment wodd increase acoordinglly. 

The Audit staff continues to bdieve tiutt ody $232,739 ($204,322 -i- $28,417) of tiie 

February 7,2008 payroll represented a qudifiod oampdgn expense. Tlie remaining 

$528,451 jepresented a aon-qudified campaign expense. 

Additiond NOCO A^fustments 

Based on JEFP's response to Rnding 4, Stde-Dated CSiedcs, die following components 

of the NOCO have been adjusted accordingly: (1) Cash-in-bank, (2) Accounts Payable 

for (Modified Campaign Expenses and (3) Payable to U.S. Treasury - Stde-Dated 

Checks. 

The Audit staff revised the NOCO to indude all revisions discussed above. We have dso 

cdculated actud windmg down expenses tinough December 31,2010 and updated tiie 

estimated wuiding down expenses through August 31,2012. The revised NOCO appears 

on tilie followuig page. 

ATTACHMENT ^ 

PAGE. ^0 QF 3L1 
John Edwards for Preddent 

Statement of Net Outstanding Campdgn Obligations 

As of Jannary 30; 2008 

Prepared thru December 31,2010 

Assets 

18 

Prtanary Election Cash-in-Bank 

General Election Gssh-in-Bank 

Accounts Receivable 

Cq>ital Assets 

Total Assets 

Llahmtiea 

Primary Election Accounts Payable for Qualified Campaign 

Expenses 9 1/30/08 

Refund of General Election Contributions 

Loan Payable 9 1/30/08 

Actual Whiding Down Costs (1/31/08 -12/31/10) 

Estimated Winding Down Costs (1/1/11 - 8/31/12) 

Payable to U.S. Treasury - Stale-Dated Checks 

$3,968,555 

3.321.290 

455.789 

29.m 

$2,341,276 

3321.290 

8.974.713 

2.988.019 

1.216.981 [a] 

59,953 

$7,774,768 

$18,902,232 

($11,127,464) 

Total LlabOtties 

Net Onlslandiiig Campaign Obllgation8(I>efick)aBorjamuu7 30,2008 

Footnnte to NOCO Stntameat! 

[a] Esdmaied winding down costs have been calculated not to exceed limitations at 11 CFR 19034.11(b). 

Shown behiw are adjustments fbr funds recdved after January 30,2008 through Jdy 17, 

2008. 

Net Outstanding Campaign Obligations (Deficit) as of 1/30/08 

Private Contribations Received 1/31/08 tiirough 7/16/08 

Interest Incoine Received 1/31/08 through 7/16/08 

Matching Funds Received 1/31/08 tiuough 7/16/08 

Remaining entitiement as of 7/16/08 

Matching FUnds Received 7/17A)8 

Amount Rceelved in Excess of Matching Fund Entitiement 

($11,127,464) 

358.983 

22.110 

8.825.425 

($ 1.920.946) 

4.057.453 

$ 2436,507 

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D. Draft Find Audit Report 

The Draft Find Audit Report conduded tiut JEFP received $2,136,507 in excess of tiie 

Oudidate's entitiement and shodd make a repaymem of the amount to the United States 

Treasury. 

E. Committee Response to the Draft Final Audit Report 

In response to the Draft Find Audit report, Couusal for JEFP (C^msel) restated many of 

the same arguments made previously with respect to the Fdmiary 7,2008 payroll and te 

JEFP's overdl objection to the repayment of matdiing funds. In addition to those 

arguments. Counsel stated that the portion of the Fdiruary 7,2008 payroll in question 

($528,454) should be treated as a '*pre-DOI [date of ineligibility] qudified campdgn 

expense" fbr the followmg reasons:' 

• To compensate staff for overtinu and extra hours worked during January 2008. 

• To conipensate staff for renuining with the campdgn after DOI to perform 

functions relating to closing out campdgn offices. 

• To compensate staff for extra expenses tiiey may have incuned, induding 

assisting hi the dose-out of the campdgn. 

Counsd continued that the find payroll wss to compensate staff for thdr woric prior to 

DOI and to ded witii obligations (leased office space, ientd can, leased equipment, etc.) 

tiiat vfere undertdcen by the campdgn prior to DOI. As such, accorduig to Counsd, the 

find payroll amount that the Audit Division is chdlc nging is a qudified campdgn 

expense because the expenditure (1) occuned witiiin severd days of the end of the 

csmpdgn, (2) wss driven by conditions and obligations in existence prior to DOI, and (3) 

should be treated on the some bssis as other pre-DOI expenditures. Counsd dso stated 

that "the find payroll was intended to ded with a variety of issues, induding all of tho 

explonatums enumerated in the DFAR." 

In addition, the response addresses a matter mH discussed in detdl in any response 

received previoudy received from JEFP. Counsd stated: 

"Smce JEFP filed its Response to tiie Prduninary Audit Report in December 

2010, JEFP has become involved in providuig exieiDive information ta the 

Department of Justice. Although the Committee is not under investigation, it has 

beoi necessary fiir JEFP to mcur unantidpated expenses, induding additimul 

staff and legd costs. These costs do not fall withhi the ambit of typicd 'wmding 

down' costs because they sre not uicuned for a Cominission audit or compliance 

with public financmg laws. Rather, tiiese costs ore actudly qualified campdgn 

expenses that ore beyond whiduig down costs. Because the Committee's efforts 

have been more extensive than anticipated, and have required a large finanehil 

9 In response to die Preliminary Audit Hqmt. Counsd argued that this amoum represented a winding 

down expense and identified an amount that represented staff salaries covering die period January 31. 

2008, to Fcbnury 7,2008, as well aa an amount that represented a lump-sum paymem for expenses. 

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conunitment, JEFP might exceed the lumt on wuiding down costs. (11 C.F.R. 

§9034.11.) Therefore, JEFP is seeking a determination fiom the Commission that 

tiie Committee nuy re-dlocate those costs as qudified campaign expenses. In the 

dtemative, tiie Conudttee requests ttut ttie Comntission deteimine that, duo to 

unforoseen chvuinstances, tiiese expeosos be exdnded from wuding down costs 

for the purposes of the 10% Unufe on snob costs." 

Finally, Counsd stated that the Statement of Net Outstanding Campdgn Obligations 

(NOCO) OS it i^eared m tiie Draft Fuul Audit Report (DFAR) vdues JEFP's capitd 

assets at $29,134 but that this vdiution is not an accurate reflection of tlie ciuient vdue 

of the assets. Counsd notes that the DFAR reflects vdustion of assets fiom 2008. Smce 

tiiat date, the vdue of these asseta has deCluied dronuticdly. The response expUuns that 

dectromc items substantially decreased ia vahie with age and several of tin»e items are 

no longer ninerional. Tiierefore, the vdue tif capitd assets for NOCO purposes jhomd be 

reduced to $1,775, the cmretit vdue of these assets. Counsd dso mdicsted tiut h will 

provide additiond documentation. 

ConuDlaalon Gonoliiaioii 

On Jdy 21,2011, the Commission considered the Audit Division Recommendation 

Memorandum in which the Audit Division recommended tiut tiie (^mmission determine 

that JEFP received $2,136,507 in matching funds in excess of the Candidate's entitiement 

and must repay tiut amount to the Umted States Treasury. 

The Conumssion approved the Audit stsff s recommendation. 

I Finding 2, Bflsstatement of Financial Activity | 

Summaiy 

A comparison of JEFP's reported financid activity to its bank records revealed a nuterid 

misstatement of repoited cosh-on-hand m cdendar year 2007 throng March 31,2008. 

JEFP understated its December 31,2007, cash-on-hand bdonce by $585,814 and 

understated its March 31.2008. cash-on-hand bdance by $468,676. JEFP materidly 

complied with tiie Audit staff's recommendation and ameided its most recentiy filed 

report to < orrect tile: oash-on-hand balance. 

The Conunisdon approved this finding. 

Legal Standard 

Contents of Reports. Eadi report must disdose: 

• the amount of cash-on-hand at tiie beghming and end of the reportuig period; 

• the totd amount of receipte for ihe reporting period and for tiie dection cyde; 

• the totd amount of disbursementafitf the reporting period and for the election cyde; 

and 

• certaut transactions that require itemization on Sdiedde A (Itemized Recdpts) or 

Sdiodde B (Itemized Disbursements). 2 U.S.C. §434(b)(l), (2), (3), (4), and (5). 

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Facta and AaalyaiB 

A. Facta 

Durmg fiekiwork, a comparison of JEFP's reported finandd activity to its bank records 

revealed a moinrid misstatement of reported cash-on-hmid fbr calendar year 2007 

througih Mamh 31,2008. The enduig cash-on-hsmi balance fin: cafendar year 2007 was 

understated by $585,814 and the ending cash-on-hand balanoe as of March 31,2008 was 

understated by $468,676. 

B. Prdimlnary Andit Report & Audit Dividon Reeommendatiion 

The misstatement of cash-on-hand was primarily due to two factors. First, JEFP 

understated unitemized reeeipta, most of which represented smdl credit card transactions. 

This was duo to a euntribution processuig software indfiinction. JEFP was nnaware of 

this pidriera until the audit fiddwork. Second, cerudn disbmsoments, dtiiough initidly 

repeated, were inadvertenfly voided and missing fiom the smeided reporta. 

This mattar was discussed at the exitconfeBeaoe. Hie Audit staff provided JEFP 

representatives copies of the Audit staff's baiik reconciliations and JEFP hdicated a 

willmgness to conect tiie misstated cash-on-hand figures. 

The Audit Otaff recommended tiut JEFP amend ita most recentiy filed report to conect 

the cash-on-hand balanoe, with an explanation that the change resulted from a prior 

period audit adjustment It was dso recommended that JEFP reconcile the cash bdance 

of ita most receul rqpert to identify any subsequent tiiscropandes tiut may have affected 

the adjustmenta recummended by the Audit staff. 

C Committee Bespanae ta the Fkdiminaxy Audit Report 

In response, JEFP amended its reports and reiterated that the misstatements were the 

result of an anoindy hi the software used by JEFP. 

D. Draft Find Audit Report 

In the Draft Find Audit Report, the Audit staff aduiowledged that JEFP ameuded its 

repurts to correct the misstttementa. 

Commiaaion Conoluaion 

On Jdy 21,2011, tiie Commisskm considered tiu Audit Division RecoDunendatxin 

Memorandum in which the Audit Division recommended tiut the Conunission adopt a 

finduig that JEFP understated ita ending cash-on-hand bdance. 

The Commission approved tiie Audit staff's recommendation. 

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I Finding 3. Failure to Itemige Loan Repayments 

Summaiy 

During audit fiddwork, the Audit staff dentified loan repaymenta, totdmg $4,344,469. 

that were not itemized. Altiiough JEFP reported tiie amounta on ti^e Detail Summary 

Pages and itemized tiiem on Schedde C (Loans) and Sdieduie C-1 (Loans and Luies of 

Credit From Lending Institutions), it did not itenuze them on Schedule B-P (Itemized 

DisbuEsementa). JEFP complied witii the Audit staff's recommendation and amended ita 

reporta to itentize tiie loan repaymenta. 

The Commisskm approved this findfaig. 

Legal Standaid 

liVhen to itemize. When a loan repayment is nude to any person in any amount, the 

committee must report tiie: 

name and address of die payee; and 

data and amount of paynumt 2 U.S.C. §434(bX5)(D) and 11 CFR 

§104.3(bK4Xiii). 

Facts andAaalyaia 

A. Fteto 

During fieldwork. tiie Audit staff dentified loan repaymenta, totdmg $4^44,469, which 

JEFP dui not itenuze. Altiiough JEFP mduded the aggregate amount of tiiese paymenta 

on the Detailed Summary Pages, it fdled to provide supporting Sdieddes B-P, itemizing 

the paymenta. 

B. Frdlmlmuy Audit Report & Audit Division Recommendation 

This matter was discussed at the exit conference. There was no obvious reason why the 

loan repaymenta were not itemized, but a JEFP representative agreed to amend the 

committee's reporta as necessary. 

The Audit suff reconunended that JEFP file amended reporta itemizing the loan 

repaymenta on Schedde B-P, line 27(b). 

C. Committee Response to the Pkvlbnuiary Audit Report 

In response, JEFP filed amended reporta itemizing the loan repaymenta. 

D. Draft Find Audit Report 

In the Draft Fuul Audit Report, the Audit staff acknowledged tiut JEFP amended ita 

reporta to itemize the loan repaymenta. 

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Commiaaion Conclusion 

On Jdy 21,2011, the Conimission considered the Audit Division Recommendation 

Memorandum hi which the Audit Division recommended that ttie Commission adopt a 

finduig thai JEFP fdled to itemize loon repaymenta, totduig $4,344,469, on Sdieduie 

B-P (Uenuzed Disbursenmiita). 

The Conunission approved the Audit staffs recommendation. 

I Finding 4, Stale-Dated Checks 

Summaiy 

The Audit staff identified 202 stde-dated checks, totding $267,529, and recommended 

that JEFP provide evidence that the checks are not outetanding or mdce a payment to the 

United States Tinosury. Ihrasponse, JEFP documented that oestdn checks were no 

longer stde-dated as they dito had cleared tiie bode or were fiir amounta that were 

determined to be not owed. As a resdt, the remaining 128 stde-dnted diecks, ttitding 

$141,808, require repayment to die Umted States Treasury. 

The Cominission approved tiiis findmg. 

Legtd Standard 

Haadling Stde-Dated (Uacadled) Chedu. If a conunittee has issued diecks that the 

payees (creditors or contributors) have not cashed, the conimittee must notify the 

(^mmission of ita efforta to locate the payees ond encourage tiiem to cosh tilie 

outatandhig cfaedts. Tlu comndttee must dse submit a chedc payable to the United 

States Treasury for tiie totd amount of tiie outstandug dieda. 11 CFR §9038.6. 

Facts and Amilyais 

A. Facta 

During fiehlwoik, the Audit staff identified 202 stde-dated checks, totduig $267,529. 

The checks were dated between February 22,2007 and May 21,2008 and had not deated 

tiie bank as of February 28,2010. A majority of tiie stde-dated diecks represented 

refunds of generd dection contributions. 

B. PreUmfaiary Audit Report & Andlt Division Reoonunandatinn 

This nutter was discussed at the exit conference during which the Audit staff provided 

JEFP representatives with a schedde of the stde-dated diedcs. In response, JEFP 

mdicated tiut it contacted a number of uidividuds/vendors and rdssued $114,481 in 

stale-dated chedta but did not provide tiie dieck numbers of the rdssued chedu. 

Without the check numbers, the Audit staff codd not determine whetiier any of the 

reissued diecks had deored the bade. 

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hi the Prdunmary Audit report, the Audit stsff reconunended that JEFP provide evidence 

tiiat: 

• the $114,481 Ul rdssued chedu have deared the bonk by providuig copies of the 

front and badt iif the negotiated diedcs dong with bonk statementa; and 

• tiie renummg stsle-dsled checks, totding $153,048 ($267,529 - $114,481) had 

dtiier been reissued and deared JEFFs bank or had been voided because no 

obligation exista. 

Absent such evidence, the Audit staff reconunended that JEFP pay $267,529 to the 

Umted States Treasury. 

C CoBiinittBe Response to the Phdlndnary Audit Report 

hi ita response, JEFP stated tiiat 83 cfaedcs, totdmg $138,871, shodd be removed from 

the stdendated ehede list and provided documentation in support of ita position. 

Based on a review of JEFP's response and the documentation presented, the Audit stsff 

identified that 74 checks, totding $125,721, were no longer stde-dated. For the 

renuuung stde-dated chedta, JEFP did not provide suffident documentation to support 

ita position tint no obligation existed or that the chedu hsd deared the bank as of 

December 31,2010. Therefore, JEFP is required to pay the Udted States Treasury fbr 

tiie remddng 128 stde-ditted-cheda, totdmg $141,808. 

D. Draft Fhid Audit Report 

The Draft Fhul Audit Report concluded tiiot JEFP was required to pay tiie Umted States 

Treasury for 128 stale-dated diecks, totduig $141,808. 

Commission Conclusion 

On Jdy 21,2011, the Coinmission considered the Audit Division Recommendation 

Memorandum in which tiie Audit Division recommended that the Coinmission find that 

JEFP shodd pay $141,808 to tiie Umted States Treasury. 

The Commission approved the Audit staffs iBcnminendBtion. 

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ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

1900 M Street NW 

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Washington, DC 20036 

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REQUEST FOR ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OF REPAYMENT DETERMINATION 

IN FINAL AUDIT REPORT REGARDING JOHN EDWRDS FOR PRESIDENT 

The John Edwards for President Committee seeks administrative review under 11 C.F.R. 

§9038.2(c)(2) of the Commission's repayment determination in its Final Audit Report regarding 

the John Edwards for President Committee 2008 Presidential primary campaign ("JEFP"). The 

Commission issued its Final Audit Report ("FAR") on July 29,2011, concluding that the 

Committee is required to make a repayment of $2,136,507 for matching funds received in excess 

of entitlement. Based on the reasons outlined below, JEFP disputes the Commission's 

determination regarding the amount the Committee should be required to repay to the U.S. 

Treasury. JEFP requests a hearing as part ofthis administrative review process on all repayment 

issues presented herein under 11 C.F.R. §9038.2(c)(2)(ii). 

The Commission should reduce the amount of its repayment determination for the 

following reasons: 

• The Commission has incorrecUy categorized $528,454 of JEFP's fmal payroll as a 

non-qualiiled campaign expense when in fact that amount was paid to staff to 

compensate them for services rendered during the campaign and to reimburse 

them for expenses incurred while rendering those services; 

• The Commission has incorrectly concluded that JEFP received matching funds in 

excess of entitiement, given that matching fund payments to the Committee were 

delayed because of a series of unprecedented and extraordinary events that 

occurred during the 2008 campaign, including the Commission's lack of a 

quorum for the first six months of that year; and 

• The Commission should determine that expenses incurred by JEFP in connection 

with a criminal proceeding regarding allegations of excessive campaign 

contributions are qualified campaign expenses (beyond winding down costs). 

1. Final Payroll 

The Commission in its Final Audit Report has incorrectly categorized $528,454 of 

JEFP's final payroll as a non-qualified campaign expense. The final payroll amount 

compensated staff in part for their work prior to the date of ineligibility ("DOI") and out-ofATTACHMENT.., ^ . 

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pocket expenses incurred during that time frame, and in part for their work and expenses postDOI to close down the campaign. Driven by conditions and obligations in existence prior to 

DOI, the disputed payroll expenditure occurred within days of the end of the campaign and in 

every respect meets the definition of a qualified campaign expense. As such, the final payroll is 

actually a qualified campaign expense. 

There has never been any suggestion in any audit document from the Commission or its 

staff that the final payroll expenditure was made for any purpose other than a valid purpose in 

connection with the campaign. Despite this fact, the Commission has determined that no portion 

of that payroll, not even salary payments to staff for closing down campaign operations, meets 

the standard of a qualified campaign expense. This decision is totally arbitrary and serves no 

rational purpose. Further the determination that the final payroll is a non-qualified campaign 

expense inflates the repayment amount stated in the Final Audit Report. 

As stated in previous Responses filed with the Commission, this amount was paid to staff 

to compensate them for the following: 

a. Additional work hours required of staff pre-DOI during December 2007 

and January 2008; 

b. Staff work performed in closing down campaign sites, including retum of 

rental equipment and vehicles post-DOI or archiving and preserving 

records; and 

c. Payments to staff for expenses incurred for lodging, meals, and 

transportation in connection with their work for the campaign 

a. Additional work hours required of staff pre-DOI during December, 2007 

and January, 2008; 

The final payroll check issued to staff was in part to compensate employees for the 

extensive number of hours they worked in December 2007 and January 2008. In the lead-up to 

the Iowa caucuses and the early primary states, JEFP can show that staffers were working far 

more than the normal work week. In fact, JEFP staffers averaged 100 hour work weeks during 

this time frame and routinely worked weekends and holidays. (See Attachment 1.) Moreover, 

employees received only 50% of the pay owed them on January 30, 2008. 

There is absolutely nothing in FEC regulations that bars JEFP from paying staffers an 

increased amount retroactively for extra hours worked in a previous pay periods, nor is there any 

regulation that bars JEFP from paying employees more than the half pay they were shorted on 

the January 30 payroll to make up for the fact that employees were forced to wait for 

compensation that was due them on that date. Most of these staffers were low level employees, 

compensated at a minimal rate. JEFP had the right and ability to give them a retroactive pay 

increase for the payroll which was not paid in full on the date it was owed, as well as for any 

previous payroll period in which staff put in an extraordinary work effort.^ 

' Note that in certain states it is a violation of law for an employer to fail to pay employees their full pay for a pay 

period in a timely manner. See for example. New Hampshire Statutes, §27S:43-b, and Iowa Division of Labor 

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b. Staff work required to close out the campaign: 

The final payroll check issued to staff was in part to compensate them for their work in 

closing down the campaign. There is ample evidence to demonstrate the situation that 

confronted JEFP on DOI. As of that date, the committee had 32 offices in place in 4 states 

(Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina) and the District of Columbia, plus a 

campaign headquarters facility in North Carolina. (See Attachment 2.) In addition to 261 rented 

computers and related equipment (laptops, desktops, monitors and printers), the Committee had 

other rented office, phone and technical equipment, as well as equipment that the Conunittee 

owned. For example, there were approximately 30 copiers that had to be retumed either to a 

vendor or to campaign headquarters for further disposal, as well as 354 mobile phones and 

blackberries. (See Attachment 3 showing a sampling of shipping labels and invoices for items 

that were shipped to headquarters after DOI.) Finally, there were 47 rental vehicles outstanding 

that had to be retumed to rentd car companies. (See Attachments 4 and 5.) Thus, at DOI, JEFP 

staff was faced with the rather complicated scenario of closing down operations at many sites in 

multiple locations. JEFP can demonstrate that Staff closed all offices and event sites, retumed 

rented equipment and rented vehicles, and processed materials and equipment owned by JEFP. 

This work occurred through February 7,2008, afier which date, JEFP retained a small number of 

staffers to complete winddown tasks.^ 

The Commission in the FAR determined that no portion of the staff sdary payments 

made by JEFP to perform these tasks could be treated as qualified campaign expenses. This is 

patently unfair as it was imperative that the Committee have staff available to perfomi these 

tasks in order to close the campaign in a professional and responsible manner. This determination 

has no rational basis. Moreover, this conclusion directly contravenes the Commission's 

Financial Control and Compliance Manual, which specifically outlines close out procedures for 

publicly financed Presidential campaigns, including the need for committee persormel in order to 

close out offices at the state and national level, as well as to dispose of assets. The Manual 

further advises committees to recognize the importance of preserving complete records of 

activity when closing down offices. Thus, while the Commission's own Manual goveming 

Presidential primary campaigns that receive public financing emphasizes the importance of 

staffing for closeout procedures, the Commission in this Audit is not treating any ofthe amounts 

spent by JEFP for staff to close out the campaign as a qualified campaign expense. (See Federal 

Election Commission Financial Control and Compliance Manual, Chapter X, at 181-183.^) 

Wage FAQs which state that an employer can be held liable to an employee for the cost of bounced checks resulting 

from an employer's failure to timely pay. (http://www.iowaworkforce.org/labor/wagefaqs.pdf). 

' JEFP email system was in operation until February 8,2008 to allow for efficient operation of the close down 

process. 

^Regulations governing general election public financing provisions recognize that post-DOI staff salaries are 

qualified campaign expenses. See 2 U.S.C.§§9002(12), 9004(cXl) and 11 C.F.R. §§9002.11(a)(2) 9002.12..There 

is no rational basis for treating primary campaigns differently. 

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c. Expenses incurred out-of-pocket by staff for lodging, meals, and 

transportation: 

Expenses incurred by staff fall into two categories: those incurred pre-DOI but not 

submitted for reimbursement as of DOI, and those incurred in the process of closing down 

campaign activity. Generally, JEFP chose to make lump sum payments to staff to cover 

expenses incurred in the last weeks of the campaign. There is nothing in Commission 

regulations which bars lump sum payments to staff to pay them for expenses and at the end of 

the campaign. JEFP opted for this approach as it was the most expeditious way of handling 

those payments, both for staff and the Conmiittee. The payment to staff for expenses incurred is 

a valid campaign expense, yet the Commission has concluded that the entire final payroll amount 

is non-qualified and hence no amount paid to staff for expenses incurred is a qualified campaign 

expense. This result is unwarranted. 

i. Expenses incurred pre-DOI but not submitted for reimbursement as 

of DOI 

When the campaign ended on January 30,2008, the majority of the staff had not yet 

submitted their expense reimbursement requests to the campaign for expenses incurred after 

January 15,2008. JEFP has reviewed its reimbursement records and found that 73 employees 

received no travel stipend or reimbursements for expenses incurred by them after January 15, 

2008. (See Attachments 6 and 7.) These staffers were paid nothing by JEFP for out-of-pocket 

expenses incurred for lodging, meals or transportation costs after Jan 15,2008. Since most were 

working in locations other than their home offices, their daily living expenses skyrocketed during 

this time frame and required substantial reimbursement for these out-of-pocket expenses. The 

final payroll amount received by these staffers included an amount to cover these pre-DOI 

expenses. JEFP opted for paying staffers this lump sum amount in essence as a stipend because 

it was far more efficient than processing cumbersome reimbursement requests which would have 

required significant accounting staff time and would have resulted in a delay in payment to 

staffers. JEFP recognized that staffers would be dispersing as they found other employment and 

the most equitable approach was to provide them a stipend to pay for expenses incurred in 

January prior to DOI. Similarly, the Committee was not in a position to process individual 

expense reimbursements, including tracking down employees to obtain infonnation from them. 

There is nothing in Commission regulations which bars payment of travel, lodging and 

meal stipends to staff for expenses in lieu of reimbursements based on receipts. Moreover, at the 

post-DOI stage ofthe campaign, this was the approach JEFP deemed to be most expedient under 

the circumstances. Denying the campaign the ability to treat any amount of these payments to 

staff for pre-DOI out of pocket expenses as qualified campaign expenses produces an arbitrary 

result. JEFP has calculated that $213,773 ofthe final payroll was payment to employees for 

expenses incurred pre-DOI. 

11. Expenses incurred post-DOI In the process of closing down campaign 

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As stated above, at DOI JEFP staff was required to shut down the campaign, a somewhat 

complicated process given the technological equipment and number of sites involved. The 

Committee needed to efficientiy pay these staffers for post-DOI out-of-pocket expenses for two 

reasons: JEFP needed to complete an orderly and timely shut down of all operations and offices, 

and JEFP was obligated to pay for its employees to retum to their home offices. 

At DOI, many of these staffers were deployed to locations other than their home offices 

in states where events related to the Febmary 5 primaries were scheduled. Attachment 9 shows 

that at DOI there were 20 such events scheduled or events that occurred the day prior to DOI and 

were in the process of being dismantled. As of DOI, staffers were already on the ground, many 

with rental cars, at those event locations. (Attachment 4 shows cars rented by staff in connection 

to these events.) Before staffers could retum to their home offices, they were required to close 

down and cancel tiie event. This could include physically dismantling sites (removal of chairs, 

staging, AV equipment, sound equipment, etc.), scheduling a walk through with owners of event 

sites, and other tasks associated with cancellation. Even though these events were scheduled 

after DOI, arrangements, commitments and on-site preparations for them were made pre-DOI. 

JEFP opted for paying staffers this lump sum payment in the nature of a stipend because 

it was far more expeditious at that stage of the campaign than processing cumbersome 

reimbursement requests which would have resulted in a delay in payment to staffers. 

Recognizing that these staffers were absolutely essential to avoiding default with rental 

properties, rental car companies and other vendors, JEFP believed that the Committee was in a 

far better position to encourage staffers to remain with the campaign long enough to close it 

down if employees knew that they would receive a lump sum payment rather than going through 

a cumbersome reimbursement process. It is important to consider the political environment at 

the end of January 2008. The race for the Democratic nominee for President continued at a 

frenetic pace, with two large campaigns potentially interested in hiring experienced campaign 

staffers. JEFP needed to provide the fastest payment process possible to ensure these staffers 

completed their responsibilities in closing down campaign operations and offices. 

Further, JEFP was responsible for paying travel costs to retum these employees to their 

home office locations, where many had rental housing, fumiture, personal vehicles, etc. Of the 

employees who were paid in the final payroll, as of DOI, 64 were in a location otiier than their 

home base office location. (See Attachment 8.) For instance, 23 were in states that held 

primaries or caucuses after January 8,2008, but needed to travel to their home offices in Iowa. 

In addition, once at their home office locations, staffers were responsible for properly closing 

those sites down. 

JEFP not only required these staffers to assist in shutting down the campaign, but also 

recognized its obligation to ensure that these staffers had the means to retum to their respective 

home offices. These employees, who were generally low paid staff, had already received only 

half their January 30,2008 pay and were suddenly out of employment. JEFP has calculated that 

$106,886 of the final payroll was payment to employees for expenses incurred pre-DOI. 

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The method by which JEFP reimbursed its employees served both interests - retaining 

the help of its staff and providing the means for these staffers to retum to their homes. There is 

no rational basis for treating amounts paid by JEFP to staffers for these expenses as nonqualified campaign expenses. 

2. Excess Entitiement Issues 

a. Repayment for excess entitlement 

The Commission in its Final Audit Report has incorrectiy determined that JEFP received 

$2,136,507 in excess of its entitiement. This conclusion is not supported by applicable stamtory 

provisions and would lead to an inequitable result with regard to JEFP. 

Under statutory provisions, public fund payments made prior to a candidate's DOI are 

based on submission of qualifying contributions that are matched dollar for dollar, up to $250. 

26 U.S.C. §9034. However, where the candidate does not receive payment until after DOI, FEC 

regulations adopt a very different standard, premising a candidate's entitlement to public funds 

on the status of his or her net outstanding campaign obligations at the time of payment of those 

funds. (11 C.F.R. §9034.1(b)). Hence, the Commission has determined that JEFP should be 

required to repay any amounts not necessary to defray qualified campaign expenses. This in 

essence denies JEFP its full matching fund entitlement. The Commission has compounded the 

unfaimess of this denial of matching funds by also concluding that over $500,000 of JEFP valid 

campaign expenditures for payroll were not qualified campaign expenses. 

The Commission's repayment conclusion is essentially based on the timing of matching 

fimd payments to JEFP. This timing was driven by a combination of two unprecedented and 

extraordinary events that occurred in 2008. First, there was a shortfall in the Presidential 

Election Campaign Fund, and candidates could not receive payment of public funds to which 

they were entitled. JEFP made a total of four Submissions to the FEC for matching funds 

(11/1/07; 12/3/07; 1/2/08 and 2/1/08).* JEFP should have received its first public fiind payment 

in early January, 2008, in the amount of $8.8 million, but this did not occur due to a shortfall in 

the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. Payments to JEFP were delayed until after DOI on 

January 30,2008. 

Second, the FEC was essentially out of business for the first seven months of 2008 

because appointments to the Commission were stalled in the Senate confirmation process. Due 

to this lack of a quomm, the Commission had no legal authority to take any official action, which 

meant that submissions for matching funds could not be certified between January 1, 2008 and 

July 17, 2008. 

The combination of these unforeseen events had a severe impact on the finances of the 

campaign. As a result of the shortfall in the Fund, payment of public funds to JEFP was delayed 

* Because FEC procedures prevented the Committee from .submitting its January 2008 contributions for matching 

until February 2,2008, the last of JEFP's four submissions occurred three days after the campaign ended. 

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so that the Committee did not receive its first matching fund payment until Febmary 14,2008, 

which was after DOI, and that payment was a small fraction (approximately 10%) of the amount 

to which it was entitied.^ Moreover, contributions received by JEFP in December 2007 and 

January 2008 were not certified for matching until several months later, on July 17,2008, when 

the Commission quomm was restored. 

Noimally, campaign committees are able to deal with a shortfall in the Fund by obtaining 

bank loans based on FEC certification of matching fund submissions. However, because the 

Conunission was out of business, JEFP's bank curtailed the amount that the Committee could 

borrow on the basis of submissions certified by the Commission before it ceased operations. 

Indeed, due to the conditions present in early 2008, JEFP's bank refused to lend the conunittee 

any more than 70% of its entitlement, 20% less than the 90% financing that would have been 

available had the Commission been in existence. The net result in funding meant that the 

Committee had $1.5 million less for operating expenses in January 2008. The Commission 

should not administer the public financing system in diis way as it results in inequitable 

treatment of candidates, with entitiement to public funds based on the timing of payment of those 

funds. 

Apart from the basic unfaimess of such an approach, the Commission's literal application 

of the language of its regulations premising entitlement on the timing of payment of public funds 

is wrong under the conditions that existed in 2008. The Commission's regulations were written 

with the expectation that the Commission would be a functioning agency that could approve 

certifications in a timely fashion. This was far from the case in the first half of 2008. Indeed, the 

Final Audit Report adopted by the Commission contains the admission: 'There is no question 

that the combination of the shortfall in the Matching Payment Account and the Commission's 

lack of a quomm delayed payments." (Final Audit Report at 14.) This rigid, literal interpretation 

of the regulations is inconsistent with the dollar for dollar entitiement established under the 

statute, especially in 2008. Matching all contributions received by a candidate prior to the date 

of ineligibility is not only mandated by the statutory provisions but it is the only equitable 

approach under the circumstances extant in early 2008 when two totally unforeseen events 

occurred simultaneously. These circumstances were totally outside the control of the Committee 

and they severely curtailed the ability of the campaign to continue because JEFP was unable to 

borrow anything near its full entitlement. 

Statutory provisions at 26 U.S.C. §9033(c)(2) are cited in the Final Audit Report as a 

basis for concluding that after DOI a candidate may receive matching funds only to the extent 

that campaign obligations exceed private contributions. (Final Audit Report, p. 13.) However, 

this statutory language does not support such a conclusion. In fact, the statute does nothing to 

affect the matchability of contributions received before a candidate's DOI - instead, this 

provision extends the right of candidates to receive funds after ineligibility.^ Yet, inexplicably 

^ This payment was based on JEFP's 11/1/07 Submission. 

^ Indeed, the statement in the FAR regarding Section 9033(c)(2) distorts the actual statutory language. The FAR 

states: "Under 26 USC §9033(c)(2), a candidate who has passed the date of ineligibility is not entitled to any 

further matching fund payments, except to defray qualified campaign expenses incurred before the candidate 

became ineligible." (FAR at 13) (empiiasis added). In fact, the statute does not state that a candidate is not entitled 

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the Final Audit Report uses this provision as support to deny matching funds to a candidate, 

interpreting the statutory language in a way that completely undermines the plain language of the 

statute. Under the approach adopted by the Commission in the Final Audit Report, valid 

contributions received while the candidate was active and eligible will not be matched. 

b. Qualified Campaign Expense Issue Regarding Costs Incurred in Connection 

with Criminal Investigation and Indictment 

As stated in earlier Responses filed with the Commission, JEFP is involved in an 

extensive investigation and proceedings by the Department of Justice.^ Due to this investigation, 

it has been necessary for JEFP to incur substantial and unanticipated expenses for its own 

representation in this matter, including additional staff, equipment and legal costs.^ Moreover, 

the Committee anticipates that it will incur extensive costs in future months as the Justice 

Department proceedings continue through trial, which could be followed by an appeals process. 

None of these committee expenditures fall within the ambit of typical "winding down" 

costs as defined in the regulations because they are not incurred for a Commission audit, or for 

compliance with public financing laws. Rather, these costs are essentially qualified campaign 

expenses that go beyond winding down costs. Inasmuch as the Justice Department prosecution 

goes to the question of what contributions JEFP received, the proceedings clearly relate to a core 

activity of the Committee. 

Therefore, JEFP is seeking a determination from the Commission that the Coinmittee 

may re-allocate those costs it has already incurred and anticipates incurring as a result of 

criminal proceedings as qualified campaign expenses. In the altemative, the Committee requests 

that the Commission determine that, due to the unforeseen circumstances, the costs of dealing 

with the Justice Department investigation will be excluded from winding down costs for the 

purposes of the 10% cap on winding down costs. (11 C.F.R. §9034.11.) 

The Committee has incurred and anticipates incurring approximately $925,000 in 

connection with the criminal investigation related to the campaign. This amount consists of costs 

incurred to date, plus an estimate of anticipated costs through completion of the criminal matter. 

The costs incurred to date total approximately $425,000. This amount consists of legal fees of 

approximately $320,000 in addition to approximately $86,000 in costs incurred for equipment, 

staffing and related expenses ($21,800.97 for new computer equipment and software to secure 

JEFP server; $37,305.43 for IT services related to above; $ 27,232.45 in costs for additional 

staffing and services; and approximately $18,000 in expenses incurred in connection with 

to any fiirther payments, but rather states that an ineligible candidate "...shall be eligible to continue to receive 

payments...." 26 USC §9033(c)(2) (empfiasis added.). 

^ See Response of John Edwards for President to Exit Conference Preliminary Audit Findings (February 20,2009), 

at 4; and Response of John Edwards for President to Draft Final Audit Report, at 6. 

' None of these expenses are in connection with Senator Edwards legal defense related to criminal charges, but 

instead relate solely to Committee representation. 

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representation, including travel, lodging and related expenses). (JEFP can provide additional 

backup information, upon request of the Commission.) As to future costs, JEFP anticipates that 

it will require legal representation for several months with regard to the scheduled criminal trial 

to begin in the near future. In addition, post trial appeals are anticipated. It is very difficult to 

estimate costs, but it is anticipated that this will require a minimum amount of $500,000. 

Submitted: 

October 3, 2011 

Prepared by: 

Lyn Utrecht 

Eric F. Kleinfeld 

Patricia A. Fiori 

Karen A. Zeglis 

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Business Lease - Dayton Road Development 

THIS LEASE AGREEMENT, executed in duplicate, made and entered into this L4*" Day of May, 

2007 by and between Dayton Road Development (hereinafter referred to as Landlord) whose address for 

the purpose ofthis lease is 413 Kellogg, Ames, IA 50010 and John Edwards Presidential Campaign 

(hereinafter referred to as 'Tenant'*) whose address for the purpose of this lease is 103 E. 6"*. Ames, IA 

50010, WITNESSETH THAT: 

1. PREMISES AND TERM. The Landlord, in consideration of the rents herein reserved and of the 

agreements and conditions herein contained, on the part of the Tenant to be kept and performed, 

leases unto the Tenant and Tenant hereby rents and leases from Landlord according to the terms 

and provisions herein, the following described property, situated in Story County, Iowa, to-wit: 

Approximately 804 rentable square feet located at Park Plaza Professional Office Building 

Suite #100, 103 E. 6*^ Street, Ames, IA 50010. 

For a term of EIGHT MONTHS, commencing midnight of the day previous to die first day of the 

lease term, which shall be on the 1st day of June 2007 and ending midnight on the last day of the 

lease term, which shall be on the 31*' day of January 2008 (then month-to-month with each 

. party giving 30*day notice) upon the condition that the Tenant pays rent therefore and otherwise 

performs as in this lease provided. 

2. RENTAL. Tenant agrees to pay Landlord monthly rental for said term, as follows: 

Year One $800.00 per month 

The first rent payment shall be due June 1,2007 and subsequent payments on the 1" day of each 

month thereafter during the term of the lease. All sums shall be paid at the address of Landlord as 

above designated or at such other place as the Landlord may, from time to lime, previously 

designate in writing. Delinquent payments shall draw interest from the due date of 1S% per 

annum payable annually. 

3. USE AND PREMISES. Tenant covenants and agrees during the term of this lease to use and to . 

occupy on a limited ba.sis the leased premises only as office space and not to permit the same to be 

used for any unlawful purpose or on any fuUtime-continuing basis, as prescribed by the Fire Code 

of the City of Ames. 

4. USE OF COMMON AREA. Tenant shall, together with other tenants, have the right lo ihe use 

and enjoyment of the common areas of the building. Limited food and beverages shall be 

consumed in any common areas. 

3. CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF PREMISES, (a) Tenant lakes said premises in their present 

condition and any remodeling or redecorating shall be at Tenant's expense, (b) Landlord will keep 

the external part of the building and common areas in good repair. Landlord will repair and 

replace furnace, air-condiiioner, water heater, existing wiring and plumbing as needed. 

6. UTILITIES AND SERVICES. Landlord agrees to pay water, gas, heating, air-condiiioning, 

electricity, and sewage rentals involving in the jeased premises. Tenant shall provide hi:; own 

telephone service. Tenant further agrees to provide his own janitor service. Landlord shall provide 

all structural maintenance of facility. 

7. IMPROVEMENTS. Tenant will accept the premises in their present form. Any additional 

modifications on said premises will be done by Tenant with Landlord's approval and at Tenant's 

expense and in compliance with applicable statutes and ordinances. Tenant shall keep the demised 

premises free from any liens arising out of any work performed, materials furnished or services 

rendered for Tenants. Tenant may, at the expiration of the term of this lease or any renewal 

thereof, if Tenant is not in default hereunder, remove any fixtures or equipment which Tenant has 

installed in tho leased-prcmisea previding Tenant repairs any and all damage caused by removal:— 

Plumbing and electrical is to be properly taped and holes covered and walls restored to blend in 

color with surrounding walls. 

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Tenant: 

raft Date: May 29.2007 

Fairway Shopping CCTirer 

LEASE AGREEMENT 

THIS INDENTURE OF LEASE made and entered into at Warrensville Heights. Ohio, this, day 

of . 2007. by and between CMS MANAGEMENT CO.. INC. OF IOWA 

(hereinafter called "LANDLORD"), whose mailing address is 4645 Richmond Road, #101, Warrensville 

Heights. Ohio 44128, and JOHN EDWARDS FOR PRESIDENT, a North Carolina corporation (hereinafter 

called "TENANT*'), whose mailing address is 410 Market Street. Suite 400, Chapel Hill, Nonh Carolina 

27516. 

SUMMARY OF LEASE TERMS: 

Premises; 

Addosssi 

Shqpping Center: 

Square Footage: 

Initial Term; 

Rental Comment:ement Date: June 1. 

Fixed Minimum Rent -

Initial Term: 

Month-by-Month: 

Security Deposit: 

Additional Rent -

Common Area Maintenance: 

Real Estate Taxes: 

Insurance: 

Promotional Dues: 

Listing of Exhibits: 

Exhibit "A" 

Exhibit "B" 

Exhibit "C" 

Exhibit "D" 

Unit No. 39 

2700 Mt. Pleasant Street, Burlington, Iowa 

Fairway Shopping Center 

Burlington, Des Moines County. Iowa 

882 sq. ft., being 21 x 42 

Eight (8) months, month-by-month thereafter 

None 

2007 

S500.00 per month 

Through May 31,2008. $500.00 per month, increased to $650.00 per 

month effective June 1,2008. 

$2,000.00 

None, included in the Fixed Minimum Rent 

None, included in the Fixed Minimum Rent 

None, included in the Fbced Minimum Rent 

None 

Plot Plan of the Shopping Center " 

Work to be performed by Landlord (NONE - Tenant taking "as is") 

Sign Criteria 

Work tn he pprfnrmpH by Tpnar^r, 

CTuaTantor; None 

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PHEMISBS: 110 aP*AManua8E|6t& 480 ap»r»sunaiaiyi>(76oq.rb"Si-9 Rain dflS 

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ATTACHMENT 

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Jack E. Ruesch 

LEASE - BUSINESS PROPERTY - SHORT FORM 

TfflS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 15* day of May, 2007, by and between 

Nelson Group, LLC ("Landlord"), whose address, for the purpose of this lease, is 3418 W. 

Broadway, Council Bluffs, L\ 51501, and(Edwards for President, A North Carolina non-profit 

corporation ("Tenant"), whose address for the purpose of this lease is 410 Market Street Suite 

400 Chapel Hill, NC 27516. 

The parties agree as follows: 

1. PREMISES AND TERM. Landlord leases lo Tenant the following real estaie, 

situated in Pottawattamie County, Iowa: 

The middle approximately 1000 square feet of the building locally known as 8 N. 34th 

Street/3400 W. Broadway, Ifcgally described at Lot 15 in jBlock 15, Ferry Addition to the 

City of Council Bluffs, Iowa ; 

together with all improvements thereon, and all rights, easements and appurtenances thereto 

belonging, for a term beginning on the 15th day of May, 2007, and ending on the 31st day of 

January, 2008, upon the condition that Tenant pcrfoiiTis as provided in this lease. 

2. RENT. Tenant agrees to pay Landlord as rent $ 700.00 per month, ij) advance 

commencing on the 15th day of May, 2007, and on the l" day of each month thereafter, during 

the term of this lease. Rent for any partial month shall be prorated as additional rent. Tenant shall 

also pay: all telephone and intemet charges and shall also pay the charges of installation of such 

utilities. Tenant shall pay all charges for gas and electricity for those months extending beyond 

the initial term of the lease as additional rent as consideration for extending the lease on a month 

to month basis. 

All sums shall be paid at die address of Landlord, or at such other place as Landlord may 

designate in writing. Delinquent payments shall draw interest at 5 % per annum. 

3. POSSESSION. Tenant shall be entitled to possession on the first day of the lease 

term, and shall yield possession to Landlord at the termination of this lease. 

4. USE. Tenant shall use the premises oiily fof general business purposes/political 

campaign purposes . 

5. CARE ANU MAINTENANCE. 

(a) Tenant takes the premises as is, except as herein provided. 

(b) Landlord shall keep the following in good repair: roof, exteiior walls, foundation, 

sewer, plumbing, heating, wiring, air conditioning, plate glass, windows and window glass, 

parking area, driveways, sidewalks, exterior decorating. Landlord shall not be liable for failure 

to make any repairs or replacements unless Landlord fails to do so within a reasonable time after 

written notice from Tenant. 

. ATTACHMENT^ 

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THIS U5ASB AaiVENieMT. ia enlwed inlo Ma. 

LEASE - BUSINESS PROPERTY 

(Si^andNumbao (Oliy) ^ 81(O^cotfa 5 ) 

1. PRCMiSes AND TEAM. Yho\m»m^. (nMntMawllM fHV^ renbi apiCMiMi and candUons (wroin coMAlMd, toatot iBTanvM and 

Tanani IOUBB frorn Landlord, KBeeidlng to ma ttmi and proutotonft of tKic MM , Aa fDllawlni daMiibad "pramloqif*, illualcd In 

^t^if^ T j:evM«y.tow« 

O/V/CJT suire J ,^525- £ ^ t^it^fi, 'p/SiU^, 

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ytm tha fwprauoniBnu theiaDa ami all rifthls, dttioRMnia and •poUtoMneai. whieli, mofd iwriieuiwfy. iraiudn ine xpaoa VPH pumm ac 

nwy bo meMn an "Qdiititt A,'* ir atttshsd, Wt \ (arm »f flFa*ai ^ fOjf^j^f^tmaimu&t^i ^ at mldniyht of OK diy proviraa lo vw 

Aral day or iha laaie terni. wMoh aNd) Oe on ihn dawat, ^ftfy^^^ftO- y wid andlna «l mldalgKl OA tho lasl day of 

lha lOOH larm. wMcli iliail ba on ^^^iSUmm •'^r J>H>>».JIWW . UIMH Uia ooMNten uiartthe Tonanl pay» nin(aiaraof. 

ftndoOiciiwtoapaifoimiaalnlhli.lcistf^TOvMad. ^ 

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tfioreanar, durtng lha larm of Vila iaaaa. 

In addUon la lha vbovfe monDily ranial Tenant itiall OIM pay: M/k. 

M sufM ohoU as paid al I'lo ad«r«»a trf Laddlara, aa ahevo desidnalad^ or at sued oiliar a'aca aa iha Undtard rn^, frem t'mb 16 tima, 

dealpAaABTn wiling. 

OallnqtMint paymenis ahall dra«i lAMffiil at —^ , ^ % per annum fiwn (ha ilua daM. wridi paU. 

a ra»i«M aa* ea-Ancei^tMaNe 

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ATTACHMENT 
LEASE AGREEMENT 

TfflS LEASE AGREEMENT (the "Lease") is made this^__ day oitlfiM^/i^ . 2007, by and between Principal 

Life Insurance Company, whose address for the puipose of this lease shall be 711 High Street, Des Moines, LA 50392 

(the "Landlord"), and John Edwards for President, whose address for the purpose of this lease shall be 712 East 2°" 

Street, Des Moines. Iowa (the "Tenant"). 

rr IS AGREED AS FOLLOWS: 

1. DEMISE. 

Landlord does hereby lease to Tenant and Tenant hereby rents certain space described as: 6,785 square feet of 

net rentable area located at 712 East 2*^ Street. Des Moines, Iowa, on the fu^t and second floors as shown on 

the site plans attached hereu) and marked Exhibit "A" (the "Premises"). 

Improvements. Tenant agrees lo take space in its "as is" condition. 

2. TERM. 

The term of this Lease shall be fbr a period of twelve (12) months, commencing on die 1st day of February. 

2007, and ending at midnight on January 31,2008 (the "Lease Term"). Notwithstanding said commencement 

date, if for any reason Landlord cannot deliver possession of die Premises to die Tenant on said date. Landlord 

shall not be subject to any liability therefore, nor shall such failure affect the validity of the Lease or the 

obligations of the Tenant liereunder or extend die Lease Term hereof, but in such case Tenant shall not be 

obligated to pay Rent until possession of the Premises is tendered to Tenant. In die event tliat the delay of 

delivery uf possession results from Tenant's failure to perform work for which Tenant is responsible, or fails to 

fiimish the plans and specifications as provided above, or fails to make timely selections of materials, color 

choices or other matters for which Tenant is responsible, die rent shall, nonetheless, commence on the 

' commencement date stated above. If Tenant occupies the Premises prior to said commencement date, such 

occupancy shall be subject to all provisions hereof and shall not advance the termination date, and Tenant shall 

pay rent fbr such period at the initial mondily rate set forth below. 

3. RENT. 

(A) Rent. Tenant shall pay for the use and occupancy of the Premises a base rental sum of 

$1.95 per square fool/year, in the annual amount of $13,230.75, payable in equal monthly 

installmenls in the amount of $1,102.56 (the "Rent") on die fu'St day of each month in advance 

widiout demand during die Lease Term. Rent of any period during the Lease Term hereof which is 

less dian one month shall be a pro-rata portion of die mondily installment. Rent shall be payable in 

lawful money of die United States to Landlord at Ihe address stated herein or to such other persons or 

at such odier places as Landlord may designate in writing. 

(B) Place of Payment. All such rentals shall be made payable to Principal Life Insurance Company and 

mailed to Landlord at die following address: 

ATTACHMENT—^L__^^ ^ 

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LEAS£ - BUSINESS PRGFEilTY • SHORT FORM 

This agreetTieni, made and emered into on diis iaaetMAYino?. by and between 

JlncommM KUthtM (LandterdV whose addreas, (bf thepurpoaes of this'leasc is 

im Icm StreeL Dubuam. Iww. and John Eimnh fltr PrMidenl 

(TenanOi whose addjeess Ibt thepuxpoaea of ihis leaso is: ijf 0 Martta StruL SiUsgJiOO. 

ChmaBSiLNC. 27516. 

The parties agree aa follows; 

1. PREMISES AND TERM. Landlord leases to T^nattt the following real estate 

situated in Dubuque County, Iowa: 1269Jtwa Jiiwi. DubuauR. Iowa. SlOOh 

together with all improvements thereon, and all ri^, easements and appuitenances 

- th^to b^ongingi for a tenn beginhing on the l^ita»ofMA.Y2a07, ajid ending on 

the BI" DM nt'JANUARY 2Mi. and any subsequent month tb mopxh rental upon Ihe 

condition that Tenant perfinms aa provided in this lease. 

2. RENT. Tenant agroea to pay Landlord aa rent, gji25,flg per month, in advaneOv 

eonunenohg pn rAe i" dmofMAY20B7. and on the day of eadi month thereafter, 

during die tscm of thia lease/ Rent fbr any partial month shall be prorated as 

additional rent. Tenant shall also pay: Jecwrirv Peposft of$S25M uoon timUHe 

lease. All suois shall be paid at ^ address of the Landlord, or at such'other place as 

Landlord may designate in writing. Delinquent payments shall draw interest at 109i 

oa iuiHam w UP DM dav (wlaebBvor is greater). 

3. POSSESSION. Tenant shall be entitled to possession on the first day ofthe lease 

term, and shall yield possession to Landlord at the termination ofthis lease. SHOULD 

LANDLORD B£ UNABLE TO GP^IB POSSESSION ON SAID DATE, TENANT'S 

ONLYDAMAGES SHALL BE A FRO RATA ABATEMENT OFRENT. 

4. USE. Twiant shall use the jpremises onlv for Presldantial Campaign, 

s. CARE AND MAINTENANCE. 

a. Tenant takes the prmaes, as 16, except as herein provided. 

b. Landlord shall keqp the Mowing in goodrqiair loo^ exterior walls, 

foundation, aewer, phsnbing, heating, wiring, air conditioning, plate glasa, 

windowa and windows ^ass, parking area, driveways, sidewalks, exterior 

decorating, interior-decorating, and OTHEk ITEMS, except when the same 

are occasioo^ by the misuse or negligcncB of Tenant, its agents, employees or 

inviteest Landloid shall not be liable for failure to make any repalTS or 

replacements unless LandM fiiils to do so within a reasonable time afier 

written notice fiom Tenant. 

c. Tenant shall maintain^ premises in a reasonable safe, serviceable, clean and 

presentable condition, and except ibi the repairs and repiacemems provided to 

be made by Landlord in subparagraph (b) above, shall make all repairii 

replacements and improvements to the premises, INCLUDING ALL 

CHANGES, ALTERATIONS OR ADbmONS ORDERED BY ANY 

LAWFULLY CONSTITUTED GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY DIRECTLY 

RELATED TO TENANT'S USE OF THE PREMISES. Tenant shall make no 

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and legal vee! (Oie 

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ilaWe fbr lease a portion of the BuiWinadeeJflnfltedBS ..u. i 

' -liif^^Hll,- TSuite or Olher Number of Leased BuildlngJ (thej 

Landlord (aslres to lease the Msed Premleea to Tenant, and Tenant deefree to lease the teaeed Prainises j 

f^om Land ord fer the tefm, at the rental and uponthe cowenenta, coi^dtHona and pravTsions herem adi fortti. | 

THEftEFORB. in conslderatton of the mutual promiees herein, contained and other good and valuable 

tonaideretiofl. ttie a9reed! 

liTerm. 

ed Premises to Tenant, end Tertent hereby le&ees the aame horn Uahdtord, 

/ / >d6n {Start Date] and ending 

A. LandtoM hereby (esees theJ 

' an "Inltel Term" beatnftine __ - - , . , , 

(j^J-ALf i^'^ y - l^d Da^e^ Landlord shell uae Hs beateAbrta to give Tenant poeeassion as nearly j 

~po88lb(e atthe beginning of the Laeae tenn. if Landlord is unalte to timely provide the teaaed Piemiaea, rem 

shall atnsifi for the period of delay. Tenant shall make no olher oiaim ogalnfit Laneiord fbr any such delay. 

S. Tenant may renew the teeae fbr one extended nenn of. IReoewBiTem)]. Tenemj 

ahan OMBrpse such renewal option, if ata|ii by giving written r^Siat to-Landioid not iese then ninety (SD) days 

prior to th9 expiration of the Inwai Tsmi. The renevvaf term shaO be af the rental aet rorlh below and otharwIaB 

upon the same covenanbs. eondftiona and provialona aa pravided in tftis Lease. 

2r Itontat J 

A. TchantUall pay to Landlord dunnn th&lnlUai Term rontai of 

ya^r. paydoiB in instaffmente ofmtfa ^ diAomnly Rental Arnounfl par mohlh. Eaeh 

ifay.v 

hth( 

lnatallmen)[ payrrian< a^U fn edvan 

landlord A Jrfljy, f^jW^l^f ^ 

DBBlgniiesa Payment Addreaa) or at such oth 

rental pBy(nant amount for any partial calendar monttia Ineiudad Inthe lease temn ahall be prorated on a daily 

basfe. Teiient ahail also pay to Landioid a *3eeurlW l>epofiir In me aoiounl of & ^ ^ 

fSecudtyl^epoail}. —^"^^ — 

The 

B.The r^rtej fer any renewal laaae term. If creaied aa permitted under d)is Lease, shall be 

^jf^i {Annual Rent in Renewal Terml per year payable in iculailmeiits of 

. [Monlhly Rental Amount] per month. 

3. Uae 

NolwiihstE|ndlr»g the forgoing, Tenant shall not usa the Leased Premiaes for tiie purposes ef stsHng, 

manuHactwlng or selling any expiosivsBt flsirrfnebles or other inherentfy dangaroua aubstance. ehemloai. t

or device. I .* ^ 

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GATEWAY SOUTH LEASE • BUSINESS 

PROPERTY 

THIS LEASE AGREEMENT, executed in duplicate, made and entered Into this 11th dav of Mav. 

2007. by and between Apartments Downtown, LANDLORD, whose address for the purpjpse of ^ 

this lease Is 414 East Market Street, Iowa City, IA 52245 and Sj\\r\ £3 uJ&nrh nv/- fr^ sliest 

TENANT, whose address for the purpose of this lease H \ \fN(Vl^ b' f ^ VO ^ 

WITNESSETH THAT: 

1. PREMISES AND TERM. The Landlord, in consideration ol Ihe rents herein reserved and ofthe agreements and 

cgndilions herein contained, on the part of the Tenant to be kept and perlormed, leases unto Ihe Tenant and Tenant 

hereby rents and leases from Landlord, according to Ihe terms and provisions herein, the following described real 

estate, situated in Johnson County. Iowa, lo wit: 

A portion of Ihe first floor of a commercial building located at 213 E. Burlington St., iowa City, Iowa. 

Leased area consists of approximately 615* square feet, inclusive of common area. The postal 

mailing address ol the leased premises is: 

213 E. Burlington St. 

Iowa City, iowa 52240 

with the improvements thereon and all rights, easements and appurtenances thereto belonging, which, more partlculaity. 

includes tho space and premises as may be shown on 'Exhibit A," if and may be altached liereto, (or a term of nine (0) 

months, commericing at midnight on the day previous to the first day of Ihe lease term, which shall be on the 11th dav 

of Mav. 20Q7. and ending at noon on Ihe last day of the lease term, which shall be oh the 31 dav of January. 2008. 

upon the condition that the Tenant pays rent therefore, and othenvise performs as in this lease provided. 

2. RENTAL. Tenant agrees to pay to Landlord as rental for said lerm, as foBows: Mav 11. Z007 - August 31.2007 

at S67S.00. September 1.2007 'January 31.2008 at S775.00. per month (plus all utilities), In advance, tha first rent 

payment becoming due upon execution of the lease, with a check postdated for the first day of lease term, and 

the same amount, per month, in advance, on the first (1st) day of each month Iheraafter, during the term of this 

lease, ft/lay'2007 rent should be paid directly to MVED, the prevloua tenant, as It has already been paid bv them. 

In addition to the above monthly rental Tenant shall also pay: 

-Montiiiy Gas and Electricity bills. Tenant must have Gas and Electric placed Into their names at M\6 America 

Energy at ail times. 

-Monthly Water end Sewer bills. Tenant must have Water and Sewer placed inlo their names al the City of iowa City 

at ail times. 

Ail sums shall be paid st the address of the Landlord, as above designated, or at such other place In iowa, as the 

Landlord may, from time lo time, previously designate In wrhing. Only 1 dteck per month will be accepted without 

penalties being assessed. 

Delinquent payments shall incur a S10.00 as ol the 2nd of the month, and an additional $10.00 each day thereafte(. 

3. POSSESSION. Tenant shall be entitled lo possession on the first-day of the term of this lease, and shall yield 

possession to the Landlord al the time and date of the close of Ihis lease term, except as herein otherwise expressly 

provided. Shouid Landlord be unable to give possession on said date, Tenant's only damages shall be rebating 

of the pro rata rental. 

4. USE OF PREMISES. Tenant covenants and agrees during the term of this lease lo use and (o occupy Ihe leased 

premises only for a business office. For restrictions on such use, see paragraphs 6 (c), 6(d) and V. (b) beiow. 

5. QUIET ENJOYMENT. Landlord covenants that Its estate In said premises is fee simple; and that the Tenant on 

paying the rent herein resen/ed and performing all the arrangements by the Tenant to be performed as provided in this 

lease, shaP and may peaceably have, hold and enjoy the demised premises fbr the term ofthe lease from molestation, 

eviction or disturbance by the Landlord or any other persona or legal entity whatsoever. (But see paragraph 14. below.) 

Landlord, shall have the right to mortgage all of It's right, title, interest in said premises at any time without notice, 

subject to this lease. 

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5. OrtffnahCBS and staimas. Les»a shall mI y wnti pfl m^v^m m and faqiinBn«n& or aninun«clpai se^ and 

fadiiai auiiioriiies now tn f m or iivMA may Imftv be h fs ^ pefOMng lo (he prtiniscs^ otxBSlonw vi ot aneamg (he 

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ctii«em of The Itfiwi wfMdi «hal( not ba uvaaioRabfriiriDihiidvAIV sudi anfonmani or subleRbiB u^thour candut shau be 

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7.' urilitlas AA opplicariaru andpimaooKfoi neoessaiy uGBj9sa^K» a" dieaawSedpremises shaO bi maoa >fvm wne 

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Loier^hail pay ihe amount due afidsepaialalif'nbotoe lessee ffrSasseaVpiQ laa shaw of dtachargeSi Tan9nlsba4 jMvsuch 

mtiBuddiin tifcBittiS) daysof Mee. U m a^ivMiledgciitordie laandpiendsii w defied to DwUde sendard of' 

Cice ifie clec^eai ladllfles aad sbndaid oHice ttghdna. lessia shell noi usa any aquipmanc or devices thai uiPin eioasiivc aiBe. 

vlGl energy or thai maji In ioEsar's reacomble opfnbii e«crfaBdlhi| wiring er IntBifane wOi eleorleal eeivlees to flihet tmams. 

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upon rtasorabte aedee« hi ibb mo w ofTupedftig the sam^ and vrflipinnltUiSSDrac any tima Mlthfn s&tv (601 days prior ta 

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I C I OwC\.l.lN O uni T IKNT^ V ACRGeMe<4 T 

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LICENSE AGRESMENT 

T.HIS LICENSE AGREEfcJ.ENT, is rri^de this KL* .day of 

I >^ , 2007, by and between Block 70 Retail Partnership, s 

Minnesota general partnership (hereinafter called "Owner") and John 

Edwards for President, (hereinafter called "Licensee"). 

RECITALS : 

h.. Owner is the owner of the Terra Centre in Sioux City, Iowa 

(the "Shopping Center"). 

B. Owner desires to lease to Licensee and Licensee desires to 

leaae from Owner premises, ideritified as bay #11 consisting of approxi.Tiately 752 square feet, in the Shopping Center, as outlined in 

red upon Exhiiiit "A" attached hereto (the "Leased Premises"), upon 

s.uGh terms and conditions as may be mutually agreeable to Owner and 

Licensee. 

C. Owner is willing to grant Licensee a revocable license to 

occupy and use the License Area, in accordance with the terms and 

conditions contained herein. 

MOW, THEREFORE, in consideration cf the mutual agreements 

herein contained, and for other gobd and valuable consideration, the 

receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the pa.rties 

hereto hereby agree as follows: 

1. grant of License. Subject to the terms .and conditions 

hereof, Owner hereby grants Licensee a revocable license to occupy 

arid use the License Area for the purpose of the operation of a campaign copr\mittee for Johns Edwards on behalf of the Democratic Pariiy. 

The term, of the License granted hereunder shall corfirtiSnce upon the 

earlier to occur: (i) April 15, 2007, or (ii) three days after the 

elate hereof when Licensee l:ias delivered to Owner a certificate .of 

insurance as described in Section 5 hereof, and said License sKall 

expire on April 15, 2008. Owner hereby also grants .Licensee;, for 

the duration of this License, a nonexclusive, revocable license to 

use the driveways ahd parking areas of the Shopping Center in common 

with the other tenants, licensees, arid invitees bf the Shopping Center, for purposes of gainihg access to the License Area and parking 

motor vehicles while conducting business in the License Area. Licensee shall abide by Ov/ner's rules and regulations re.gardihg the 

use of such drive-ways and parking areas. 

2. License Fees. Licensee shall be obligated to pay Owner a 

security deposit iri the amount of Six Hundred Sixty and no/iOO Dollars ($660. 00)due upon the execution bf this License Agrsem.ent for 

the License granted hereunder (''Security Deposit"), as well as first 

month's advanced rent in the amount of Five Hundred One and 33/100 

Dollars($501.33) due upon the execution of this License Agreement. 

Licensee is required to pay monthly gros.e rent in the amount pf t'ive 

Hundred One and. 33/lOC Dollars ($501.33) due on the first cf each calendar-month thereafter. 

ATTACHMENT 

FROM .HEENE ^PC- ^^9^^^? g 

WBSi/2937 .1-31.D1 • 31929-17083 

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ATTACHMENT_2:L_-
OPFICE LEASE 

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Tins USASE mdde and enteral into thie day or. 2007 l>y and lietween 'Dtyan 

Blueirtoin, horoinafter called "Landlord", and John ISdwards fbr PreMdent. hereinaflar called 

"Tenant»». 

WITNESSETH 

In consideration ofthe covenants and agreements of the respective parlies heroin 

contained, the porties hereto* fl)r themselves, their heirs, successors* disiribules, administnitorB, 

legal rcpreseniatives, do herety agree as follows: 

Landlord by these presents does hereby demise and let unto Tenant, and Tenant hereby 

leases and hires for Landlord, for the term and upon rental^ covenants and agreements herein set 

forth those certain premises located in tho State of South Carolina, County of Richland, City of 

Columbia, located at J 634 Taylor Street ond more specifically dei^oribed as follows: 

Single sioi> oflice building located 1634 Taylor Stroet- consisting of 2100 square feet of 

olTice space and storage containing 5 offices, reception area, conference room, kitchen and two 

bftthrooms. 

. ' Fifteen to Big[hteen parking spaces at si^t are included in the lease. Landlord 

is^^j^cally withholds ten parking spaces in the back ofthe parking area for the exclusive use by 

^^^essees during normal woridng hours. 

^![l> mUVli^ Y QF PI^MISE^^ 

AND TO HOLD said premises unto Tenant for a term beginning on the 1 Sth 

M i ei)ding on the 30 th day of JTanuaiy 2008. This lease term shall 

:ff mond^ to month basis until notice is given by either party at least thirty 

'^l^ifion of this term. 

llowing covenants and conditjons which are expressly agreed 

ATTACHMENT_3i 
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AIR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION 

STANDARD INDUSTRIAL/COIiAMERCIAL 

MULTI-TENANT LEASE - GROSS 

1. Bmie PravislMi ('BaBle Pnwlcions''). 

1.1 Parties: TMs Least ("Lease"), dated for re/erence purposes only March 29. 2007 

Is tnada by and baiween Wazlr Enterprise s 11 ______ 

and John Edwards For President, a Morth Carolina Corporation 

CLecsot") 

rteaaM"), (eoDccHvcly lha -Partlaa". or IndWduaPy a "Var ^ 

1.2(a) Premtaoa: Thai eeitaln porOon of Ihe Proieci (as de M belowL including aU impioiiementB tnireta 

under Ihe terms of Ihh Lease, commonly known l»y Ihe slreel addrass 014160 S. Pecos Rd. . Suite s 10 t 11 , 

loeaiedlnlheatyotLas Vegas .Couniv of Clar k . 

Stale etWV .wMhilp code 89120 .aseuUnedonEaiMt . snsehed 

hereto f Premfaeal and generally described u (describe briolly Iho nalura of Vie PremlseiJ: Approxirsately 3,127 rentable 

square feet o f offic e space as part of a larger, multi-tenant offic e building . 

In addinon to Lessee's rtghls to use and occupy ttw Premises as heielnaflar specified. Lessee shall have non^axdusiva rights to any ulWly raeemys of 

the bulldbig conialrtng Die Premises ('Buliding')and to Ibe Common Areas (as defined in Pamgraph 2.7 boiew), but shall not have any dsihtt to tha 

roor, or exterior WBIS of the BuMno or to eny other biiMlngs h ttie PrqjecL The Premisos, ttw BuNdbig. Ihe Common Araas, ttw land upon wMch they 

are locatad, along wHh al oUier buldlngs and toiprovemenis thereon, are herein eoHectiveiy retorad to as the Trejeef (See also Pamgraph 2) 

1.2(b) Parking Twelve (12 > unresenwd veMda parking spaces. (See eiso Paragraph 2.6) 

U Ttim Zero years and Jen monihi <'Oitalnal Teiw'l cewmendnn Aprl 1 1. 2007 

rConimaneewenlDate'l and ending January 31. 2008 ('Expliatton Pale"). (See eiso Paragraph 3) 

1.4 eartv PosseaalonrWot Applicabl e ("Early Peasession Data"). (SeealjoParagraphs $.2 and 3J) 

1.5 Base Rent: H . 000.00 aer monlh TBaae Rent"!: oavaMe on the Firs t 

day of each momh commendna Apri l 1. 2007 . ISee also Paragraph 4) 

• If IMS box is ehedced. there are pioviaions In this Lease fbr lha Base flem to be ad^justed. 

1.0 Lessee^ Shore of Common Area OBeraHnBEnpenses: Included percent (Included W rLesaee^ Bhafel. 

Lessee's Share has been caiarfaied by dMdhig the approAnate aquare tootage of ttw Premises by ttw approximaie square teolage of the Projea. in 

ttw even! ttial ttwl site ol the Premises endtai the Prq|ed are modined during ttw term of Oils Lease. Lessor shau recalojlale Lcssaels Share to rellecl 

audi modlRcatian. 

1.7 Base Rent and Olher Monies Paid Upon Exeeulion: 

(a) Base Rents 4.000.00 fortheperioo fl/1/07 - 4/30/07 . 

(b) Common Area OparatinBEnpenses: $ Included fbr ow peitod Included . 

(c) Security DBBOSB: $ 4.000.00 ("Security Deposit"). (See alao Paragraph S) 

(d) others Not Applicabl e tor Not Applicabl e 

(e) Total Due Upon Exeeulion of this Lease: $ 8.000.00 

1.8 Agreed Use: Presidential campaign offices 

(See also Paragraph 6) 

1.9 Insuring Parly. Lssior it lha "Insuring Pary. (See also Paragraiph 8} 

1. to ' Real Estate Brokers: (See also Paragraph 19} 

(a) RepiesentaHon: The foilcmng reel aelaie broken (ttie "Brakars") and brokarago relationsMpa exisl In ttils transaction (check 

appHcable boxes):-

E3 Millennium Conaiercial Real estat e Service s represents Lessorexohislve.'y ("Lessor'sBroker*); 

B Realt y One Group represents Lessee exclusively ('Lesaee^Brakar*);oi 

• ____________^_^^___________________ _ representebolh Lessor end Lessee (T)ualA8enay"). 

(b) Payment to Brakera; Upon execution and dalvery of this Lease by botti Parlies, Lessor shall pay to the Biukers 

BwbfoiteragelBeanieedteinaaeparatewrmenaarsemenKorIf ttiBrebnosuchBareemem.thesuwof Sep. Acme, or •***«* * %olVw 

totel Base Rent tor ttis brokerage senrieas rendered by Ihe Brokers^ 

1.11 Guaranior. The oiillgailons of ttie Leasee under ttils Lease are M be guaranteed by Not Applicabl e 

. ("Guarantor*). (See also Paragraph 37) 

1.12 Attachments. Attached hereto are ttie fbllowlng. an of whicti oonsUhda a part of ttiis Lease: 

• an Addendum conslsttng o> Peragmphs N/A Ihrough W/A ; 

• a sRe plsn daplcdng ttw Premises; 

• a site plan depicDng ow Prqisci; 

61 a cunrent set ol ttie Rules and Regulattons Ibr ttie Prcied; 

• a ouirent set of ttie Rules end Regutoiiana adopted by ttie ownere' assodatton; 

PACE 1 OF IS 

INITMLS 

9I99B 

ATTACHMENT ^ 

AIR COMMERCUU. REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION PAG E O F /<j^|Hf^y&»06f08E 
07:04 JOHN EDWARDS FOR PKSblUtNl KrM//v£ HOH /K,H^ r.wa^v.-

06/18/2007 15:4B FAK 6R(/BB & ELLIS/NC6 ii|00?/015 

OFnCE LEASE (MODIFIED GROSS) 

./ ^. PARTIES AND APPLICATION OF LEASE. This Office Lease (Lease), dated for reference puipose only, 

^ .j'unc L 2007 . is made bv and between 700 Smithridge Drive. LLC a limited liability company quaiified to do 

business in the srate of Nevada herein called Landlord: and John Edwante for Presidcnt.fJEB'V herein called 

Tenant. 

2. PREMISES. Landlord does hereby lease to Tenant and Tenant herelw leases from Landlord that cenain 

commercial space, heietn called Premises (which is depicted in Exhibit *'A" hereto and incorporated herein), 

having an area of One Thousand Four Hundred and Sixtv>six square feet L466 so. ft.^ and the address of 7QQ 

Smithridge Drive (the building improvements ai such address to be refened tu herein as the "Building"}, Suite 101^ 

Reno, Nevada 89502. The term ^'Property" as used in this Lease shall mean the real propeny and improvements 

more particularly described in Exhibit "B" hereto and incorporated herein. The foregoing approximation of square 

footage in the Premises represents only a good faith esdmate. Even though it may later tie determined that the 

Premises contains more or less actual square footage, neither the rant nor Tenant's percentage of Direct Expenses 

set forth in Aiticle 7 below shall increase or decrease as a result of such lecalculation; provided, however, that if 

within ninety (90) days after the Commeneement Date Tenant delivers a sqaare footage calculation prepared and 

certified by an architect licensed in Nevada demonstrating that the square footage identified herein is off by greater 

than ten percent (10%). then so long as the certification is accurate, the term^ and conditions of this Lease relating 

to the square footage of this Lease shall be adjusted to reflect the accurate square footage ofthe Premises from that 

time forward. This Lease is subject to the terms, covenants, and conditions herein set forth and the Tensint 

covenants as a material pait of the consideration of this Lease to keep and perform each and-all of said ienns, 

covenants, and conditions. 

3. TERM. The term of this Lease shall be for 8 months, commencing upon the earlier of (i) actual possession of 

the Premises, or (ii) June 18,2007 or Tenant shall pay Us pro rate rent based on occupancy.(said earlier date^'being 

n^erred to as the "Commencement Date"), and shall expire on January 31. 2008, unless terminated<€&rlier 

hereunder. • • ' ' 

-if. POSSESSION. 

4a. If the Landlord for any reason whatsoever cannot deliver possession of said Premises to the Tenant on (Jt 

before .die first day of the term, this Lease shall not be void or voidable, nor shall Landlord be liable to Tenant for 

any loss or damage resulting therefrom, nor shall the expiration date of the above term be in any way extended; but 

in that event, all rent shall be abated during the period between die Commencement Date and the time'when 

Landlord delivers possession. 

4b. In the event that Landlord shall permit Tenant to occupy the Premises prior to the Commencemehi Date 

such occupancy shall be subject to all the provisions of this Lease, including without limitation, the obligation to 

pay rent. Said early possession shall not advance die lerminadon date hereinabove provided. 

S. RENT. The total aggregate base rent commitment for die Premises, not including any operating~6xperiBes; 

adjustments to operating expenses, services ahd utilities, janitorial costs and expenses or other financial obligations 

of Tenant under this Lease, shall be $**Fouiteen Thousand Fifty«Seven at^d and 47/100 dollars fSl4.057.47) **. 

which Tenant agrees shall be bayable to Landlord, widiout prior notice or demand unless otherwise provided in 

this Lease, in the amount of One Thousand Eight Hundred NinetV'One and 14//I00 dollars fSl.891.14 Van or 

before the first day of ihe first full calendar montii of the tenn hereof and a like sum on or before the first'day of 

each and every successive calendar monih thereafter during the term hereof, except diat the first month's tetiK shall 

be paid upon the execution hereof. Rent for any period during die term hereof which is for less than one (1) mondi 

sbaill be a prorated portion of die mondily installment herein, based upon a thirty (30) day mondi. Said rent shall be 

paid to Landlord^ without deduction or offset in lawful money of the United States of America, which shall be legal 

tender at the time pfpayment, at 700 Smithrid^e PnyPi \1,^ «limited liability company qualified to do busmess in 

Nevada. 550 West Humb Lane. Suite B-434. Reno. NV 89509 or to such oUier person or at such odier place as 

Landlord may firon) .time to time designate in writing. Generally speaking and as more paiticulariy expressed 

diroughout this Lease, Landlord and Tenant agree to a Modified Gross Lease whereby Tenant must pay for: (a) die 

ba^B rent idenUfied in this Article 5, payable monthly, (b) operating expense adjustments as provided in Article 

Q?^\ (c) services and utilities aiid janitorial costs and expenses as provided in Aziicle XVU; and (d) any and all 

Miiher monetary obUgations of Tenant as provided under this Lease. Landlord agrees to provide Tenant, witiiin a 

reasonable time after Tenant's request, widi written invoices for rent, operating expenses (lo die extent Landlord is 

billed) and operating expense adjustments. ATTACHMENT ^ 

PAGE 33 OF/6^ 
SUBLEASE AGREEMENT 

THIS SUBLEASE AGREEMENT made this day of June 2007 is 

entered into by and between Garvey Schubert Barer, a partnership of professional 

corporations (hereinafter "Sublandlord"), and John Edwards Campaign 

("Subtenant"). 

WITNESSETH: 

WHEREAS, Sublandlord occupies space in the Flour Mill Complex at 

1000 Potomac Street N.W., Washington, D.C. pursuant to a lease dated May 30, 

1996 betv^een Solet, LLC as landlord and Garvey, Schubert & Barer as tenant, as 

amended in the First Amendment to the lease, dated November 28,2000, and the 

Second Amendment to the lease, dated September 27, 2004 (the lease and the two 

amendments thereto are hereinafter collectively referred to as "the Lease"); 

WHEREAS, Sublandlord now desires to sublease tx) Subtenant, and 

Subtenant wishes to sublease from Sublandlord, a portion of the office space 

subject to the Lease, in accordance with the terms hereof; and 

WHEREAS, the Sublandlord and the Subtenant desire to set forth 

their understandings with respect to the terms of the Sublease as more particularly 

described herein (hereafter "die Sublease Agreement"). 

NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows: 

1. SUBLEASE 

Sublandlord agrees to sublease to Subtenant, and Subtenant agrees to 

sublease ftom Sublandlord, one unfurnished ofSce in a portion of the space 

Sublandlord leases on the Second Floor of the Pioneer Building in the Flour Mill 

complex, as marked with diagonal lines on the ftoor plan attached to this Sublease 

Agreement as Exhibit A (hereinafter the "Subleased Premises") and known as 

"Office 229." Subtenant agrees to sublease the Subleased Premises in accordance 

with all the terms and conditions contained in the Lease, except as otherwise 

specifically provided for herein. The terms and conditions of the Lease are hereby 

incorporated herein as the terms and conditions of this Sublease Agreement, with 

each reference to Landlord and Tenant in such Lease to be deemed to refer to 

Sublandlord and Subtenant. 

ATTACHMENT. 

PAGE 3^ QflkL 
2. TERM 

The term of the Sublease shall be for a period commencing on July 1,2007 

(hereinafter the "Commencement Date"), and terminating on June 31, 2008 

(hereinafter the 'Termination Date"). The term diereafter shall automatically be 

extended on a month-to-month basis unless on or before May 1,2008 either party 

notifies the other party in writing that it does not agree to any extension of the 

Termination Date. In the event that the Sublease is extended on a month to month 

basis, Sublandlord and Subtenant must provide at least 60-day notice prior to the . 

date on which either exercises its option to terminate such month-to-month lease, 

or to amend any of the other terms of the month-to-month lease. During any 

extension on a month-to-month basis, the terms and conditions ofthis Sublease 

Agreement except for the Termination Date shall continue to apply in full. 

3. RENT 

(a) Subtenant agrees to pay to Sublandlord a total Rent during the term of 

the Sublease of $15,000. 

(b) The Rent shall be paid in Twelve (12) Monthly Payments of $ 1,250 

each. The Monthly Payment shall be due and payable on or before the first day of 

each month during the term of the Sublease, except as provided in Section 3(c). 

Upon notice by Sublandlord, Subtenant shall also include as part of the Monthly 

Payment next due any charges incurred under Section 4 of this Sublease 

Agreement, and any additional.fees Landlord has charged for any specific services 

or privileges actually provided at Subtenant's request to Sublandlord or to 

Subtenant, including, without limitation, after-hour, weekend, or holiday HVAC. 

(c) Subtenant shall pay to the Sublandlord a total of $2,500 concurrently 

with the execution of this Sublease. Of this amount, $1,250 shall be applied to the 

first month of the Sublease, and the remaining amount shall be held as security. 

Within thirty days after the expiration of the term hereof, and any extension of the 

sublease on a month to month basis, the Sublandlord (provided tiiat the Subtenant 

is not in default under the terms hereof) shall refund the security deposit to the 

Subtenant, less such portion thereof as the Sublandlord shall have applied lo make 

good any default by the Subtenant with respect to any of the Subtenant's 

obligations, covenants, conditions, or agreements under this Sublease, which 

default Subtenant has not cured pursuant to Subsection 20.1 of the Lease. 

Landlord shall have no obligations or liabilities with regard to the foregoing 

' ' ATTACHMENT P 

PAGE 3jT OF f^h_ 
Rental Agreement 

Terms: Terms of the agreement shall be year 1 months; beginning on 

.Tulv 1.2007 and ending on January 31.2008 This agreement will 

automatically extend under the same terms and conditions contained herein, excepting 

any changes in the monthly rental amount. The Landlord or Agent will provide the 

Tenant with thirty (30) days written notice of any change in rent. Any other agreements 

in the terms are noted as follows: 

Termination: The agreement may be terminated by either party after the full term of the 

agreement by giving the other party al least on full month's (30 days) written notice. 

Rental Payment: Rent is due by the 4^^ day of each month unless prior an-angements 

have been made. (Noted below) Rental payments must be made directly to the office of 

Home Sweet Apis. & Realty, Inc., 92 Main St., Berlin, NH 03570. (Unless noted below) 

Any rental payments not received by the due date will be deemed "late" and subject to a 

$15.00 late charge. There will be an additional charge of $15.00 per week for each week 

thereafter that the rent remains unpaid. All late charges must be included with her rent 

due. If the payment is not received with the late payment charge, the Tenant's account 

will remain in "default" and late charges will continue to be added. If the rent is not paid 

in full by the 10*** of each month, the Tenant may be placed under eviction. The Tenant 

agrees lo be responsible for any and all expenses incurred, including reasonable attomey 

fees, agent fees and court costs due to said eviction. 

Any other Arrangement . 

Returned Checks: The.Tenant agrees to pay a $25.00 fee as damages for each 

dishonored check presented for payment. If two (2) or more checks are retumed, all 

future rental payments shall be in the form of cash, certified check or money order. 

Security Deposit: A security deposit in the amount of $ 500.00 and to be paid 

by July l". 2007 The security deposii will be applied to damages and/or 

unpaid rent upon tenant vacating the unit. If damages and/or unpaid rent exceed the 

amount of the security deposit, the Tenant agrees to pay such excess charges. If the 

Tenant fully complies with all terms and conditions of the agi^ment, the security deposit 

will be retumed to the tenant within 30 days after the dale Tenant delivers possession of 

the leased unit. The security deposit cannot be used as final rent payment. The Tenant 

agrees to forfeit the security deposit if the premise is vacated prior to the period specified 

on this rental agreement. 

ATTACHMENT 

PAGE_1^_ Q?J±^ 
LgASg 

THIS LEASE AGREEMENT (this "Lease") Is entered Into as of June 13, 2007, 

between COCHECO PARK ASSOCIATES, a Massachusetts limited partnership 

("Landlord"), and John Edwards For President. ("Tenant"). 

1. Premises and Commencement. 

(a) Lease Grant. Subject to the terms ofthis Lease. Landlord leases to 

Tenant, and Tenant leases from Landlord, the area (the "Premises") described on the plan 

attached as Exhibit A. being part ofthe retail area (the "Commercial Space") situated on 

the first floor of each of the buildings (collectively, the "Buildings") located on the property 

described in Exhibit B. The term "Property" shall mean the property described in Exhibit B. 

together with the improvements thereon and such additions and other changes as Landlord 

may, from time to time, designate as being included within the Property. 

(b) Acceptance of Premises. Except as set forth in Section 1 (c) below, 

the Premises are being leased to Tenant in their "AS-IS" condition. Tenant shall iaccept 

possession of the Premises upon the Commencement Date. 

(c) Commencement. The parties agree that the Lease "Commencement 

Pate" shall be July 1,2007 despite the execution of the Lease on the date noted above. 

(d) Area of Premises. The area ofthe premises are approximately 1,200 

square feet in the Cocheco Park Apartments building (the "Building") located at 40 

Chestnut Street, Dover, New Hampshire. 

(e) PfopoFl<onate-ShareT-^Pi=oi»ortiona>e-Shaffe!=-6hell-be •• %. yMth to tho porcontOQO obtained-tev 

wldiwa the number of reniable-CQuaro feet of aroo in tho PromiBec bv i which Is stipulated to be-tho numbor of ronioblo 

MT 

2. Term. The term of this Lease shall be seven (7) months and 0 Days, 

commencing on the Commencement Date (the "Term"). If the Commencement Date is not 

the first day of a calendar month, then the Term shall be extended by the number of days 

between the Commencement Date and the first day of the next month. Provided no Event 

of Default exists and Tenant is occupying the entire Premises at the time of such election, 

Tenant may renew this Lease for an additional period by delivering written notice of the 

exercise thereof to Landlord not later than 90 days before the expiration of the Term. The 

Base Rent payable for the initial term be: $6,650 for July 1, 2007 - January 31, 2008. 

Tenant may terminate this lease by giving the landlord thirty (30) days advance notice from 

the first day of any month after completing a minimum three (3) months of occupancy. 

3. Rent. 

Base Rent. "Base Rent" (herein so called) shall be the following amount for 

the following period of time: 

ATTACHMENT ^ 

PAGE 37 _ OFJIM . 
i6:20 FROM- T-004 P002/002 F-005 

i/19/2007 

Dear Mrs. Ethel DiNitto, 

This letter is to serve as an agreement between Mrs. Efliel DiNitto and Edwaids for 

President in regards to renting the property located at 12 N. Main Street, Concord, NH 

03301. 

• Edwards for President has agreed to lease the office space from June l", 2007 to 

January 31" 2008. 

^ On the first of each month Edwards for President will pay Mrs. Ethel DiNitto 

$ 1)S44.16 for rent and garbage pick up. The payment will be made to 114 N. 

State Street. Concord, NH 03301. 

» Edwards for President will pay for all utilities associated with the rented space, 

and switch the utilities to Edwards for President before it occupies the property. 

• Edwards for President will maintain insurance on its ov/n personaJ property 

items, such as computer equipment, fun'.ishings, etc, as well. 

a Edwards for President will be liable for window, if ihey break during the lime the 

building is leased. 

» Edwards for President will notify the lessee before any radical changes arc mude 

to the property. 

' Edwards for President will retum the property in the condition thai il was in when 

the lease begins. 

Ivjis. Ethel DiNiuo Date //Hdw«di for PresMcnT Date 

ATTACHMENT ^ 

PAGE 38^ OF /M . 
LEASE 

This LEASE is made this day of June, 2007 by and between Derry Depot Square Holdings, LLC 

(Landlord) c/o DEDC 20 tast Broadway Derry, NH 03038, and Jolui Edwards for President, Inc. a Nortli 

Carolina Corporation, of 410 market Street Suite 400, Chapel >lill NC 27516. Tenant desires to lease the premises 

containing approximately 728 square feet of space, known as unit 18 (hereinaAer referred to as the "Leased 

Premises"), and which premises are located in the Depot Square Building, located at 6 West Broadway, Deny, NH 

"SmounTDuelrom 

Total Rent 7/1/07 - 8/31/07 $ 1,650.00 

Security Deposit S 1.650.00 

Total due S 3,300.00 

Totai amount due must be paid in the form of collecUble funds, and made payable to 

Grubb & lEllis/Coldstream, 170 So. River Rd. Bedford. NH 03110 

IT IS THEREFORE AGREED AS FOLLOWS: 

1. Term. The initial term of this Lease is for a period of Seven (7) Months commencing on July 1,2007 and ending 

on January 31,2008, unless sooner terminated as provided herein. 

2. Base Rent 

A. Tenant shall pay base rent as follows: 

TIME PERIOD ANNUAL BASE RENT MONTHLY AMOUNT 

One Year $7,221.72 $607.91 

B. If Tenant does not pay base rent, supplemental and additional rent (see paragraph 3) or other fees and charges 

when due pursuant to the terms ofthe Lease, then Landlord, in its sole discretion, may charge, in addition to 

any other remedies it may have, a late charge fbr each month or part thereof that Tenant fails to pay the 

amount due after the due date. The late charge shall be five percent (5%) ofthe amount unpaid. 

3. Additional Rent-Taxes. Maintenance of Cominon Areas-Tenant Contribution 

A. In addition to base rent, and as noted in paragraph 3B contained herein. Tenant shall pay to Landlord Tenant's 

proportionate share of the cost incuired by the Landlord in maintaining the Leased Premises, and such costs 

are herein referred to as "Additional Rent". All costs and expenses of every kind and nature paid or incurred 

by Landlord on account of operating, equipping, lighting, repairing, replacing and maintaining all common 

areas, sidewalks, enclosed portions of the building, real estate t-axes, and all other common areas shall be 

prorated, and Tenant shall share therein. Such costs and expen.ses shall likewise include (but shall hot be 

limited to) premiums for liability, property damage, fire, and all other insurance carried with restpect to the 

Building and personal propeiiy taxes and assessments. Real estate taxes and Additional Rent shall not include 

any franchise, estate, inheritance, succession, capital levy or transfer tax of Landlord or any income tax of 

Landlord or any interest or penalties assessed witli respect lo any real estaie taxes arising solely from 

Landlord's failure to timely pay the same and not attributable in any way to the failiu e of Tenant lo punctually 

pay its proportionate share thereof 

B. Tenant's Additional Rent shall be paid in monthly installmenls, in the amount estimated by Landlord, on the 

first day of each and eveiy calendar month, in advance. As of the date of this^easp. Landlord's good faitli 

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Initials iWWjHMENT.^ 

PAGE 5 ^ 0F_/£4 . 
LEASE 

Lease Agreernent made this. . day of WH^ ^ . 2007, between S.S. 

Baker's Realty Co., LLC, a New Hampshire limited liabilil/company with an address of 441 

Main Street, Keene, New Hampshire 03431 (hereinafter referred lo as "Landlord") and John . 

Edwards for President, a Nonh Carolina based coiporation with an address of 410 Market Street, 

Suite 400, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (hereinafter referred to as "Tenant"). 

1. Leased Premises. In consideration of the mutual agreements in this Lease, 

Landlord leases lo Tenant a portion of Landlord's building (the "Building") located at 428 Main 

Street. Keene, New Hampshire, consisting of approximately 596 square feet, being the second 

floor area in the back (east) portion of the Building, and referred to as the "Leased Premises." 

The approximate location of the Leased Premises is shown on the attached plan labeled 

Exhibit A. Included with the Leased Premises are rights, jn common with Landlord and other 

tenants, for: driveway access to the Building, coinmon parking in the parking area, common 

doorways into the Building, including a handicap access, common hallways adjacent to the 

Leased Premises, one stairway access to the Leased Pi^mises, and use of one common bathroom, 

all as designated on Exhibit A. In addition. Landlord shall make available Landlord's conference 

room on the first floor of the Building for occasional use by visitors of Tenant who ai-e unable to 

access the second floor of the Building. 

2. Term of Lease. This l^ase shall begin on ^ / / 2007, and shall end 

January 31. 2008 (the "Lease Term"). 

3. Rent. Tenant shall pay rent for the Lease Tenn in the amount of $ ^^oo 

Rent is payable in cash or olher good funds acceptable to Landlord in equal installments of 

$700.00 per month, payable in advance on the first day of each and every month duiing the 

Lease lerm, without notice. Rent shall shall be prorated for the remaining days of the month for 

the first month of ihe Lease Tenn. Rent shall be paid to Landlord at the address listed above, or 

at any other place designated by Landlord. If Tenant fails to pay the rent in full within two days 

after its due date. Tenant shall pay a late charge of $25.00 plus $5.00 for each additional day that 

the rem continues to be unpaid. 

4. Security Deposit. Upon signing this Lease, Tenant shall pay $700.00 as a security 

deposit, prior to commencement of occupancy, which shall insure the performance of Tenant's 

obligations. Tenant may not apply the security deposit, nor any portion thereof, to the any rent 

"3irerTncluding the last rnbnth's rent of the Lease Term. Landlord may, but is nol obligated, to 

apply portions or all of the deposit on account of Tenant's rent or other obligations. If charges 

made upon termination of tenancy exceed the remaining security deposii, Tenant shall remain 

liable for excess charges. If any portion of the security deposit is applied to obligations pf Tenant 

at any time during the tenancy. Tenant shall, upon 5 days written notice, reinstate the full amount 

of the security deposii. 

5. Use of Leased Premises. The Leased Premises shall be used as an office. 

6. Taxes. Landlord shall be responsible for the timely payment of the real estaie 

Page 1 of 4 ATTACHMENT_A__ 
06/21/2007 16:44 6035240542 PAGE 02/06 

LACONIA PLEASANT STREET ASSOCIATES 

COMMERCIAL LEASE 

MADE this 21st day of June, 2007, between Dwigbt Barton dba Laconia Pleasant 

Street Associates, 206 Fair Street Laconia, New Hampshire, 03246, (hereinaiter 

called the Lessor which expression shall include its heirs or assigns where the 

context so admits) of the one pan, and John Edwards for President 

(hereinafter called the Lessee which expression shall include their executors, 

administrators and assigns where the context so admits) of the other part, 

WITNESSETH, That in consideration of the rent and covenants herein .reserved 

and contained on the part of tbe Lessee to be paid, performed and observed, Lessor 

does hereby demise and lease unto the Lessee the store together with the basement 

thereunder, located and known as 624 Main Street, Laconia, N.H. 03246. Said 

premises are to be used by the Lessee for the conduct of a campaign office. 

To have and to hold said premises for the term of 7 months beginning on 

July 1,2007 and ending January 31,2008, and paying therefore the following rent, 

payable monthly on or before the first day of eadb month as follows: 

First Year; $795.00 per month for a total annual amount of $5,565.00 

(Five Tliousand Five Hundred Sixty Five dollars). 

A late fee of $25.00 plus $3.00 per day will be assessed on any rent not paid before 

the 5th day of each month. 

A Security Deposit has been received in the amount of $693.00, which may not be 

applied to rent. All security deposits vidU be returned at the end of this lease, 

within 10 days upon inspection of tlie premises provided there is no damage to the 

property. The Landlord has the right to deduct any and all damage so caused by 

the Tenant fi'om the Security Deposit being held. Upon renewal of this lease the 

Security Deposit shall remain with the Lessor until such time as the Tenant has 

vacated the property. 

The Lessee does hereby covenant with the Lessor that the Lessee during the said 

term and for such future time as they shall hold the said premises or any part 

thereof, will pay unto the Lessor the said rent at the times and in the manner 

aforesaid (except as hereinafter provided), and will keep the said premises in good 

repair, order and condition. Upon vacating the Lessee agrees to retum the premises 

in the same condition or better, damage by fire or other unavoidable casualty only 

excepted. L 

ATTACHMENT, ^ 

PAGE, 
LEASE 

This Lease is made on this Aday of August, 2007, by and between MASCOMA 

Rl VERMILL PROPERTIES, LLC^ew Hampshire limited liability company with a principal 

place of business in Lebanon, New Hampshire and MASCOMA RIVERMILL ENTERPRISES, 

LLC, a New Hampshire limited liability company with a principal place of business in Lebanon. 

New Hampshire (collectively referred to as "Landlord") and JOHN EDWARDS FOR 

PRESIDENT of Chapel Hill, North Carolina ("Tenant"). 

Article I. BASIC PROVISIONS. 

Premises Address: Rivermill Commercial Center 

85 Mechanic SU'eet 

Lebanon, NH 03766 

Initial Temi: August 6,2007 to January 31, 2008 

Extended Term: No opti on(s) 

Landlord's Address: Mascoma Rivermill Properties, LLC 

Mascoma Rivermill Enterprises, LLC 

c/o Mascoma Rivermill Management, LLC 

85 Mechanic Street, Suite 140 

Lebanon, NH 03766 

Tenant's Address: John Edwards for President 

410 Market Street. Suite 400 

Chapel Hill, NC 27516 

Article II. LEASE OF PREMISES. 

Section 2.1 PREMISES. 

in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, Landlord 

hereby leases to Tenant certain premises, together with all appurtenances and rights granted with 

respect to certain common facilities, which premises are described as follows: 

(a) Approximately 1,145 square feet of space to be used for a campaign office, which 

space is designated as approximately '/s of Unit" B3:2" on Exhibit A attached hereto. 

ATTACHMENT ^ 

PAGE OF /^ ^ 
AHK-2b-'dUU^ Ua.'bb' fin KtU UHK DUOOM r 0100 

FAX NO. .•. 7069358457 

Lease Dated ss of March 15,20^7 

I* 

I 

Article! 1 

Mar. 1? 2007 06:j7Pn P2 

Keftrence Data 

1.1 Syl^ftc^gl^ffftedTo: ; 

Esch reference in this Lease to any of the following subjects sliallibe c«n*traed to incorporate the 

data stated for that subject in this Section: 

Landlord: 

Managing Agent: 

Red Oak of fee Opera, LLC and j 

40 West Broadvi'By Tru-St | 

Red Oak Property Maaagcment, Lie. 

269 Pine Street 

Manchester, >3H 03103 j 

(S03}6(i8-82S2 

Landlort's Notice Address: C/o Red Oak Property Managemegt, he. 

289 Pine Street 

Manclxcster,NHO3103 

Tenant: 

Teoant's Kotice Address: 

John Edwards for Presideat 

Building Address: 

Premises Address: 

Comnvmcemcnt Date: 

ExpiratioA Date: 

Rentable Floor Area of 

TetviTit's Space-. 

Rentable Floor Area of tbe 

Building: 

18-72 Hanovcj-Street 

Mat\RheRter.NHO3l01-223O | 

66 Hanover Street , 

Suite 103C, Suite 166C »nA 202Cj 

Manchester, KH 03)01 

i 

March 15,2007 j 

Febniary28,2008 

) 200 square feet (Lower Level) . 

3142 square fuBtd" Floor) ( 

1589 «quafc fret (2" Floor) 

91,971 square feet 

ATTACHMENT ^ 

PAGE f A OPjLkL 
LEASE AGREEMENT 85 WEST PEARL ST. 

This is a lease dated June 1, 2007 between James Walker and Vivian Walker 

(Les.sors) of 99 West Pearl St. Nashua, N.H. dba as Walker Rentals , and (Lessee) 

1) The Lessors lease to the said Lessee and ihe lessee accepts the 

.Lease from the lessors of cenain premises, known and designated as 85 Wesl Pearl Si. 

Nashua N.H. for the lerm of six months from June 1,2007 to January 31.2008 at ihe 

monthly rental of $1300.00, which will be paid in advance on the first day of each month 

during .said leim. Al the inception of this lease the Lessee shall pay Ihe Lessors a $1300 

security deposit which may be used for ihe last month's rem providing the premises are 

lefi in a condition satisfactory to the Lessors. 

2) The lerm "Premises" shall refer to a portion of ihe Lessors building 

at 83-85 Wesl Pearl Si. Nashua, N.H. said portion being the existing ground level store, 

on the west side of the building, known as 85 Wesl Pearl St. 

3) The Lessee may make such repairs, alterations, and improvements lo the 

premises as it may deem appropriate to accommodate the uses it desires to make of the 

premises .providing ihai such repairs, alteration, improvements or other actions do not 

compromise the structural integrity of the building, or the life and safely of other tenants. 

The Lessee shall advise the Lessor before undertaking any such repairs, alterations, or 

improvements. 

At the termination of occupancy and ihe lease, the lessee may remove fixtures and 

equipment it has placed on the premises provided no undue harm or damage is done to 

the premises. 

4) The I^.ssors shall be responsible for major simctural repairs and modifications 

reasonably necessary lo mainiain the building in good and usable condition. The 

Lessor shall be responsible, except as specified herein, for exterior maintenance required 

to mainiain a reasonably neat and orderly appearance for the premises. 

5) The Lessee shall cause, at its own expense, snow to b removed from 

the sidewalk in front of the store and whatever portion of the private alleyway it is 

agreed thai it may use. The Lessee shall maintain signs, awnings, and olher items 

installed by the Lessee in a reasonably neat and orderly manner. The Lessee shall be 

responsible for replacement of broken glass in iis storefront and entrance door. The 

Lessee shall maintain its premises so as not to create or allow any fire or health or other 

undue hazard lo exist. . 

6) The Lessors shall heat but nol air-condition ihe premises. The Les.sors shall furnish 

hot and cold water in reasonable quantities, but not for the processing of goods or 

materials. Any waste, rubbish or hazardous waste generated by the Lessee shall be the 

responsibility of the Lessee. The Lessee shall be responsible for its own utility bills such 

as electricity, telephone, cable or olher similar utilities.. 

ATTACHMENT_2^ _ 

PAGE. If • OfjAJL 
RIVER RUN COMPANY, INC. 

COMMERCIAL LEASE 

This Lease is entered into this tii day of October 2007 by and between SJVER RUN COMPANY, INC. 

(hereinafter RRCO), a New Hampshire corporation created under the laws ofthe State of N. H. and having its 

principal place of business at 2760 Main Street, P 0 Box 826, North Conway, County of Cairoll, Stale of N. H. 

(hereinafter called "Lessor") and John Edwards for President, a North Carolina Non Profit Corporation, doing 

business at Norcross Place, 2686 Main Street, North Conway, County of Carroll, State of N. H. 03860 (hereinafter 

called "Lessee"). 

1. DESCRIPTION OF PREMISES. The Lessor hereby agrees lo lease to the Lessee, and die Lessee hereby agrees 

to accept, subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set fordi the following premises: the portion of Lessor's 

premises described as Space #5, approximately 400 5q.ft. of die lower level, eastem space ofthe above said 

premises. (Hereinafter refereed to as "Leased Premises") 

2. TERM. The term ofthis lease shall be for three (3) months commencing November 1,2007 through January 31. 

2008. The terms ofthis lease are to be held confidential, by both parties. 

3. OPTION TO RENEW. There shall be an OPTION to renew this lease fbr an additional term, upon similar terms 

and conditions to be detennined at that (ime. Lessee shall notify Lessor in writing prior to the tennination ofthe 

present ieastc term, of Lessee's intention for renewal. 

FINANCIAL TERMS & CONDITIONS; 

4. PAYMENT OF RENT AND ADJUSTMENTS: 

A. PAYMENT OF RENT. Monthly rental payments are due and payable on or before the first of the 

month in advance. 

B. RENT TAYABLE TO: RJvcr Run Company, Inc., P 0 Box 826, N. Conway, N.H. 03860 or the 

Eastern Slope Inn Front Desk, Rents are preferably paid by check or money order and mailed to RRCO. 

C. RENT AMOUNT: Monthly Rent S445.00/month* 

D. PAYMENTS REQUIRED PRIOR TO POSSESSION OF PREMISES BY LESSEE: 

Security Deposit S 1,100.00 

November Rent S 445.00 

November CAM S 130.00 

NET AMOUNT DUE S 1,675.00 

E. PROMPT PAYMENT DISCOUNT - You will be entitled to a Prompt Payment Discount of S25.00* if 

your payment of rent and the other payments due from Lessee (mcluding Uiose defined in Paragraph #7 of diis lease) 

are acmally received by RRCO on or before the 1" ofthe month (or the 1" business day following, if the 1" falls on a 

weekend) in which payment is due. 

F. LATE FEES & FINANCE CHARGES - Ifwe fail to receive your monthly rent installment within five 

(S) days ofthe due date, you will be charged a late payment charge of S25.00 per occurrence. In addition Lessee 

accounts 30 days or more past due will be assessed a fmance charge of 1.5% per month on the account balance past 

due. No demand for rent, either written or oral, is required. Failure lo receive rental payments on the date the same 

is due shall constitute a breach ofthis agreement and eviction proceedings may be inunediately commenced as stated 

in Section #16. Acceptance of a rental payment later than the due date shall not constitute a waiver ofthis 

paragraph. 

G. RETURNED CHECK FEE - Lessee will be assessed a S25.00 charge for each occurrence oFa Lessee 

check which is retumed by tlie bank due tu insufficient ftmds. 

ATTACHMENT_fl__ 

PAGE 0?Jkk. 
11/l.</2007 15:57 FAX 2077754326 

06-20-'07 09:16 FROM- 6036063615 

Letter of Intent to Sub-Lease 

(gl 009/010 

T-121 P00g/011 F-078 

Date; Junie 7.20Q7 ^ 

Thia letter ahali aorve aa a mutual nan-binding letter of iniant by and beiwaan the below 

named Sub-Undlord and Sub-Tenant nagardlng «IB lease of thb property described below 

under the following terms and conditions: 

Sub-Landlord:. 

Sub*Tenant' 

Properly Addreaa; 

Realdentlal Mortgage Services, Ine. 

Joljn Edwarda fbr PnsBldent 

Paradb Office Mall. Hanover Street, Portamouth NH 

Property Deaoription; Offioe apaee 

Irtitial Leaae Term: 8 morvihB ending D1/d1A)8 

Optlona To Renews: no 

Lease Rale: $2000 per montfi, electricity and phone 

Rent/Leaae 

Commencement:: 

Occupancy Date: ' 

Delivery of Premlees: 

Utilities: 

Security Deposit: 

Ae soon ae possible In June 

above 

as is oondilion with use of all f urniture included 

To be paid as npted in lease agreement 

2 months or $40Qo 

? ihia noivbinding letter of iment ia to outline the general busineaa terms and 

GOndiUons under wMch both psrtiee wiil be willing to' go fonward in an orderly manner to 

consummate the proposed leaae agreement. 

This response Is confidential and for discussion purposes only and is not warranted as to Ite 

accuracy of completeness. It is subject to the negotiation and execution' of a rhutualiv 

acceptable Leaae. 

r-Miapo TsmplAtoB/LOl Uaia 8001 

ATTACHMENT. ^ , 
COMMERCIAL LEASE AGREEMENT I 

i 

Lease made the P& th day of December 2007, by and between One Wakefield Realty 

Trust of 134 East Howard Street, Quincy, MA 02169 hereinafter refenred to as "Lessor", and John 

Edvrards For President of 410 Market Street, Suite 400, Chapel Hlil, NC 27S16 hereinafter referred to as 

"Lessee". 

WITNESSETH 

That the Lessor, for and in consideitition and upon the terms, conditions, and provisions 

hereinafter set forth, does hereby agree to lease to the Lessee, its successors, heirs, and assigns, 

the fbllowlng described premises: 1,440+/- square feet of office space located on the second 

floor of One Wakefield Street, Suite 225, Rochester, New Hampshire. 

1. TERM. The term of this lease shall be for One (I) Month, beginning on January 1,2008 

and ending on January 31,2008 (the "lease term"). If the Lessee has not vacated the leased 

premises at the close ofthe lease, it shall be considered a holdover tenant and shall serve at the 

will ofthe Lessor with the monthly rental rate increased by twenty percent (20%) over the 

previous month's payment. As such, Lpssee shall be govemed by the same terms and 

obligations as set forth herein. 

2. RENT. The Lessee agrees to pay to the Lessor as rent for the leased promises: 

1/1/08 to 1/31/08 $850.00/monthly 

3. IMPROVEMENTS BY LESSOR. Lessor shall lease the premises in *'as is" condition. 

4. ACCESS. Lessor shall have access to the demised premises at all times in the event ofan 

emergency. Lessee shall not change locks without prior notice to Lessor. Should Lessee install 

a security system monitoring the leased premises. Lessor shall be given an entry number so that 

emergency access can be gained. 

5. LIENS, Lessee shall keep all of the leased premises and Lessor free and clear of 

mechanics', materialmen's and other liens in connection with work and/or labor done or services 

provided to the leased premises by Lessee. 

ATTACHMENT_^> 

PAGEJLI— OfjAA 
^pb STANBABO UASC A6REXMENT 

LEASE> made mil IO fl»V <tf,, " 

Between '3BIX6 . MrtABtf^ .harcfaaSernliod die Landlord 

And jEAa GiumAs ^ Cma^^^tn .henrtnBftevcalMdMTwanl. 

WfTNBSSBTM: Ttw the Landlord hcrebx Icb fo ttw Tcunt •ndlhe Tapurt li«r^ fbm (he Lmdlof^ • 

0MtalnJ3Ed._U_ . with the vpurtBoancea. silualed at g> SaAa^ fr^jffi*yy. 

TO HAVE AW O TO HOLD tho aawM te the wid Ta—m far thctem* cf iwyiy eimitti ifcam tha j B »Mifi« rf 

Hi-*—1 0 Ibe/aHa^of filMMki^^gMhe T«tpaying lenttwret^nv vhveiBaaorpfOvidad. 

Andthe LondloAt eavcaantB wilh ike Taunt thai be mey eeJi^y the ipicAfMS dmiag die tenn aflMaail po8e0d>ly. 

udAveoralt JswdblnfMy etturpcnon. ^TUJO 

AND THE SAID TENA^ csvcoanta wm dig nu Laodlord OMI he will Mrtbe a«id Landlofd 

OJU . ^Leee^a^J l - Dollfln (SjWSJPt ^ * • 

TOlil_ mil- or MidprBmlses a hBnaid « AMA , -amiBnttof 

fllHi nTrtrrfil ilMe>^l eaeh oariia J3tK dav af eaeh moiuh in advance. SBCURITY oerOSnr n Be 

lidd by LJndlord in amount of AtM. Jiamiiiujil PoUan (Sjffi^Sz) du* upm signinBAMD THB SAID TENANT Smtaer covenanti with aaid LaAdtani dut ba will oet maka aor mfller any wwie upoa the praniaes, 

Aat ha MRI not laau jiar uadetlei HOC pomit any Olher person or penanS 10 oceufry the unie. Ror cany oaHiefein in any 

otBsnliVd 0«de or bUBbioaSt nor lukB am nt&a ta be oiode aay aUsraiiofia diarain, oempt with lha eaiMcnt in wiidap of IlUb 

LiMidloni: that he win not do any act or nwux any buaineas by which the insuranee on aaid buUdiagi may be afteied^iiid diot 

flte Landioid may cnior ID view nd nnke improvamcubi ond lo OKpal tho Tenant if he shall fiJI to pay tfio Mat or perflmn any of 

Ihe eoveannis afimaaid or aboll bftach any «f Ihe condib'oni bminaftor alfpuloMd; and ttM h« Min peaMabiy quit ad deliver «p 

dM prattiaea lo Iho iMdloid at lbs lonnlnaiion ef dui loose in ea aood ofder nd ooodltion. mwneiiis and careftil UIIBB diotot 

and unavoidable cBsuellfea excepiod, oa die same ara now or may he pin into die Loodlmd. 

INSURAI'CE; Tbe TBnnal shall Itandab tbe Landlord a cenUiEBte of LiObili^ rnsuraaae icecpiohla to tta Landlord (br bodily 

bdury ond piDpeny daaaage. Sueh oertiAcaie ihill eonioin a 15 dagr cancellation notice. 

THIS LEA8B Is also n^o sohjeel le d«e failowjng eooditions: 

. IflUllord ahSII pay alecntE and heal ibr diis office. 

Landlord ifcall poy ferdtt eleoninfl imrices. 

Lttdlonl lhall onui ftar dib portion ofiiie building. 

AND PROVIDEO ALSO, that bi case du preoisea or any pan dieceaf durinft Ibe 

lira eretber unovoldableconud^f ao dial die aame •bail be Uieraby fondarad unfit far uae and hahlwdoni Aon. and IR aneh evnni, 

the veni hacbibefim icaovcd. or a Juit and proportfonaJ pan dioeoC monlins u ^ ud dinni of Ot iq)urfea'iuaBdncd.' 

•haU ho suapcnded or ahmd uoMI ihe aold pwwlaoe ahall hn«e been put hi proper condition Ibr uia aad bahliadon by ihe mid 

Ladldrd or tfieao priacals ahall dieralv be dlleraiiBed lod ended at ihc eteedoa of tne aaid Landioid or his lepi icpnaeaieilve. . 

IT rs UMDBMTtXID AND AGREED, that Ihe propoty Hereto dcacrlhed has been bispcctcdby die Tenant or dw Teoun'a duly 

auDiorlsed ngcn^ thai Ihia leoM and any lunewaJ diereef wai braugbi about by B- HUNTBR REALTY of MolMrDttgh. How 

Hampshiic br Ihe oonvcnienee ofthe Laadloid aad Tenant; and ihai W. B. Hunter RealQp how made and boicVy mdw u 

OBvanaaOi or wamntica aa la th« eeodittna of the pranicu and awiima na liabili^ whuaoever in eonneOlen wilh Ihii leOSe. 

Should Uie Tenant pujchase die ohovo dcscrihed pnipeny ftaro Uie Landlord wjibin cightiBen mootha flom the drta of dita Icnae 

or any nnwuml tfureof V. B. HUNTER BEALTY ate la be pnHKtod at legular caaunioaioB ittos hnvtog hnnight UK aale. 

IN wnMESS WHEREOF, die parties have heraunio inttfchoncGably Ml dieir hands aad Bcols die day and year finthcnin 

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Vendor City State Rate Notes 

National Bimriingham AL 269.07 Staff 

National Burbank CA 184.17 Staff 

Enterprise Atlanta GA 126.16 Staff/Press 

National Atlanta GA 425.12 Staff/Lead 

National Atianta GA 425.12 Staff 

Enterprise Atlanta GA 122.45 Staff/Lead 

Enterprise Atlanta GA 122.49 Staff 

Enterprise Atlanta GA 126.16 Staff/Press 

National New Orleans LA 126.39 Staff 

National New Orleans LA 284.39 Staff 

National New Orleans LA 107.43 StaffyPress 

National New Orleans LA 202.22 Staff 

National New Orleans LA 107.43 Staff 

National New Orleans LA 107.43 Staff/Press 

National Minneapolis MN 789.56 Staff 

National Minneapolis MN 181.5 Staff/Lead 

National Minneapolis MN 181.5 Staff/Press 

National Minneapolis MN 181.5 Staff/Press 

National Minneapolis MN 181.5 Staff 

Enterprise Columbia MO 84.48 Staff/Press 

Enterprise Columbia MO 84.48 Staff/Press 

Enterprise Columbia MO 84.48 Staff 

Enterprise Columbia MO 84.48 Staff/Lead 

National Springfield MO 605.53 Staff 

Avis Springfield MO 96.49 Staff/Lead 

Avis Springfield MO 133.26 Staff/Press 

National Springfield MO 100.88 Staff 

Avis Springfield MO 164.77 Staff 

National Fargo ND 218.25 Staff 

Avis Fargo ND 460.53 Staff 

National Tulsa OK 86.83 Staff/Lead 

National Tulsa OK 86.83 Staff/Press 

National Tulsa OK 173.66 Staff/Press 

National Tulsa OK 173.66 Staff 

National Atlanta SC 464.24 Staff 

Hertz Columbia SC 84.55 Staff 

National Chattanodga TN 132.14 Staff/Lead 

National Chattanooga TN 132.14 Staff 

National Nashville TN 97.54 Staff/Lead 

National Nashville TN 128.46 Staff/Press 

National Nashville TN 97.54 Staff 

National Nashville TN 97.54 Staff 

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2/4/08 Avis Budget Group^ LLC 

2/4/08 Enterprise Rent-A-Car 

2/4/08 Hertz Rent A Car 

2/4/08 National Car Rental 

Federal Amount 

4,592.32 

28,403.50 

22,128.28 

6,724.58 

61,848.68 

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National Charleston SC 1011.73 

National Raleigh NC 323.84 

National Raleigh NC 66.56 

National Stamford CT 35.06 

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410 Market Street 

Ci\apeimi.NC 27516 

BBST • operating 

8200 Graonsboro Cnv 

McLean VA 22102 

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"** THREE HUNDRED FIFTY NINE AND 86M0O 

Rania Batrice 

Ciieck A-mL 35d.86 

Check Date: February 1, 2008 

Check No: 10890 

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John Edwards For President Reimbursement Form TRAVEL EXPENSES ONLY 

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John Edwards for President. ATTN: Jay Petterson. 410 Market Street, Suite 400, Chapel Hiil, NC 27516 

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Vendor No: V-0059S 

Peter Bondi 

Check No : 1G675 January 16,2008 

'...•Reference. Invoice Date Invoice DescribSon Net Amount Paid 

91)008 . 

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01/11/08 

0Wi4/08 

travel reimbursemont 

travel reimbursement 

231.71 

117.08 

Total: 348.79 

John Edwards for President 

410 Market Street 

Chapel Hill. NC 275 i 6 

BG&T • Operating 

8200 Greensboro Drive 

MCLUnVA 22102 

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THREE HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT AND 79/100 

Poter Bondi 

Check Amt: 348.79 

Check Date. January 16, 2008 

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410 Market Street 

Chapel Hill, NC 27516 

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Check Oats: February 1, 2008 

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John Edwards For President Relitibufsement Form TRAVEL EXPENSES ONLY 

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John Edwards for President, ATTN: Jay Petterson. 410 IVIarket Street, Suite 400. Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

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Total: 273.50 

John Edwards for President 

4/0 Market Street 

Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

BBAT • operating 

6200 Greansboro tlrhia 

McLeaitVA 22102 

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••• TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE AND 50/100 

Bryan Jun 

Check Amt: 273.50 

Check Date: February 11,2008 

Check No: 11014 

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Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

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McLean VA 22102 

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••*' TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY AND 25/100 

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Check Amt: 270.25 

Check Date: February 1, 2008 

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McLean VA 22102 

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Chapel Hill, NC 27516 

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i»4GLaanVA 22102 

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Check Date: February 1,2008 

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Check Amt: 405.66 

Check Date: February 1, 2008 

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Chapel Hill, NC 27516 

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Check Amt: 388.60 

Check Date: January 31. 2008 

Check No: 10813 

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013108 01/31/08 travel relinburaement 451 :«o 

Total: 451.50 

John Edwards for President 

4IOM0HI[et5rreer 

Chapel HIU, NC 27516 

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McLeenVA 22102 

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' FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY ONE AND 50/100 

Mark IMcCuiiougti 

Check Amt: 451.50 

Check Date: February 1, 2008 

Check No: 10877 

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John Edwards for President, ATTN: Jay Petterson. 410 Maricet Street. Suite 400, Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

ATTACHMENT 
Jbhfi .iEdwards fbr president Vendor No: W^O^Ql^S 

Elizabeth Pavie 

Check No: 10876 • F^tirwry;^^^^^^ 

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013106 01/31/08 travel reimbursement tio.'*'9 

Total: 110.49 

John Edwards for President 

4IOi\4arJcerSrreet 

Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

BBiT • OperatfM 

8200 Greensboro Drive 

McLean VA 22102 

Pay 

To the 

order 

of: 

ONE HUNDRED TEN AND 40/100 

EHzabelh Pavie 

Check Ami: 110.49 

Check Date: February 1.2008 

Check No: 10870 

COPY 

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ATTACHMENT_i2 — 

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siame: Liz Pavie Date Submitted: 31-Jan 

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John Edwards for President. ATTN: Jay Petterson. 410 Market Street. Suite 400. Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

ATTACHMENT 

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John Edwards for President 

4}(?AtorAef5rreer 

Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

BB&T. . 

8200 Greeneboro i 

McLean VA 22102 

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To the 

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of: 

' THREE HUNDRED THIRTY SIX AND 93/100 

Paul Rcdi 

Check Amt: 336.92 

Check Date: February 1, 2008 

Check No: 10883 

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John Edwards for President 

410 Market Street 

Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

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McLean VA 22102 

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THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT AND 42/100 

Daniel Secalore 

Check Amt: 378.42 

Check Date: February 1,2006 

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ATTACHMENTS^ , 

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John Edwards For President Reimbursement Form TRAVEL EXPENSES ONLY 

siame: Dan Secatore Date SubntittGCl: 31-Jan 

Trip Oates/City/Roie (where applicable): 

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John Edwards for President. ATTN: Jay Petterson, 410 Market Street, Suite 400, Chapei HiW, NC 27516 

ATTACHMENT 

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John Edwards for President 

Vendor No: V-01179 

Michael A. Signer 

Check No: 10630 January 16,2008 

Refereiice . Irivoice Date Invoice Description Net Amount Paid 

1^/11/07 REIMBURSE 

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mileage reimbureement 

travel reimbursemeni 

162.30 

132.24 

157.97 

Total: 452.51 

John Edwards for President 

410 Market Street 

Chapel Hill, NC 27516 

BB&T - Operating 

820O Greer\«boro Orh 

McLean VA 22102 

Pay 

To the 

order 

of: 

•••• FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY TWO AND 51/100 

Micdael A. Signer 

Check Amt: 452.51 

Check Date: January 16, 2008 

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John Edwards for President 

4/0 Mdrket Street 

Chapei Hill. NC 27516 

BBiT-L. , 

8200 Qnensboro Drive 

McLean VA 22102 

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ONE HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT AND 48/100 

Jviw Soman! 

Check Amt 148.48 

Check Date: February 1, 2008 

Check No: 10881 

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ATTACHMENT, 

PAGE. 
John Edwards For President Reimbursement Form TRAVEL EXPENSES ONLY 

^amc: 1 Anisa Somani Date Submittod: . 31-Jan 

Trip Dates/City/Rota (where applicable): HHH H 

Maiiing Address and Phone: flj^BHBHHHI 

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2 $0.00 

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4 $0.00 

5 $0.00 

6 $0.00 

7 $0.00 

8 $0.00 

9 $0.00 

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John Edwards for President. ATTN: Jay Petterson, 410 Market Street. Suite 400. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 

ATTAr.HMFNT ^ 

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John Edwards for President 

4;0Marll[sr5treer 

Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

BB&T. Operaliiig 

8200 Creensboro Diiv« 

McLean VA 22102 

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of: 

ONE HUNDRED TEN AND 49/100 

pWatera 

Check Amt: 110.49 

Check Date: February 1,2008 

Check No: 10872 

COPY 

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•^Jamc: Audrey Waters Date SubinittttU; 31-Jan 

Trip IJAtus'Cify/Role (where applicable): 

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John Edwards for President. ATTN: Jay Petterson. 410 Market Street, Suite 400, Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

ATTACHMENT 
^^9!!l:i?.^f^^«>.r.<^s for president 

Vendor No; y;P6$1'9 

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Check No: 10876 

'••••I. Reference ' invoice Date invoice DesdiDtidn •••N^^AimijltifPald'!^^^ 

013108 01/31/08 travel rel/nbursement •• -1251.60 • ^ 

Total: 127.60 

John Edwards for President 

410 Market Street 

Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

BB&T • Operating 

0200 Greeniboro drive 

McLeenVA 22102 

Pay 

To the 

order 

of: 

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN AND 60/100 

Teresa Wells 

Check Amt: 127.60 

Check Data: February 1, 2008 

Check No: 10876 

COPY 

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ATTACHMENT 
John Edwards For President Reimbursement Form TRAVEL EXPENSES ONLY 

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Siame: Teresa Weils 1 Date Submlttcd: 31-Jan 

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John Edwards for President, ATTN: Jay Petterson. 410 Market Street. Suite 400. Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

ATTACHMENT 

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John Edwards for President 

Vendor No: V-01217 Check No : 10794 

Elizabeth Whittlngton 

January 24,2008 

Referenc6 Invoice Date Invoice Descriotion Net Amount Paid 

012208 01/24/08 mileage rebnbursemeni 158.89 

1 Total: 156.89 

John Edwards for President 

410 Market Street 

Chapel Hill, NC 27516 

BB&T - Operaliiis 

8200 Greensboro DTM 

McLean VA 32i02 

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To the 

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of: 

"** ONE HUNDRED FIFTY SIX AND 89/100 

E|i2abelhWluUirvglofi 

Check Amt: 156.89 

Check Date: January 24. 2008 

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4roiiifari(ar5ri«et 

Chapel Hill, NC 27516 

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8200 Greeiiaboro Orh 

McLean VA 22102 

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Check Date: February 1. 2006 

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John Edwards for President, ATTN: Jay Petterson, 410 Marl<et Street. Suite 400. Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

ATTACHMENT 
. Jbh'h Edwards for President 

VeridorNo: V-0p303 

Jini Williams 

Check No : 10710 Janijary 16, 2008 

•. ^.Reference • Invoice Date ..' . . . Invoice Descriotion Net Amount Paid 

01/14/08 REIMBURSE 01/14/08 Travel Reimbursement 262.43 

Totai: 262.43 

John Edwards for President 

410 Market Street 

Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

BB&T - Operating 

B200 Greensboro OrK 

McLeenVA 22102 

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••" TWO HUNDRED SIXTY TWO AND 43/100 

Jim Williams 

Check Amt: 262.43 

Check Date: January 16, 2008 

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Alicia J Brown 

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Total: 73.60 

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410 Marker 5rreer 

Chapel HiU. NC 27516 

BB&T - Operatlrig 

6200 Oreeniboro Drive 

McLeenVA 22102 

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' TWO HUNDRED THIRTY TWO AND XX/100 

Alicia J BI 

Check Amt: 232.00 

Check Dale: January 11, 2008 

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John Edwards for President 

410 Market Street 

Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

BB&T • Operating 

6200 Gieensboro Orn 

MIcLeenVA 22102 

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4/0 Market Street 

Chapel Hill. NC 27516 

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6200 Greensboro Olive 

McLean VA 22102 

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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20463 

November 30,2011 

MEMORANDUM 

To: 

Through: 

From: 

Anthony Herman 

General Counsel 

Alec Palmer 

StaffDirector 

Patricia Carmona 

Chief Compliance Officer 

Tom Hintermister — 

Assistant StaffDirector 

Audit Division 

Alex Boniewicz Jm 

Audit Manager 

By: 

Subject: 

Maiy Moss 

Lead Auditor 

John Edwards for President (JEFP) - Review of Documentation Submitted 

With Administrative Review Request 

On October 3,2011, Counsel for John Edwards for President (Counsel) requested an 

administrative review of the repayment determination made with respect to $2,136,507 in 

matching funds received in excess of the Candidate's entitlement. 

Counsel believes the repayment determination should be reduced for the following 

reasons: 

• The Conunission has incorrectly categorized $528,454 of JEFP's fmal payroll as a 

non>qualified campaign expense when in fact that amount was paid to staff as 

compensation for services rendered during the campaign and as reimbursement for 

expenses incurred while rendering those services; 

• The Conunission has incorrectly concluded that JEFP received matching funds in 

excess of entitlement, given that matching fimd payments to JEFP were delayed 

because of a series of imprecedented and extraordinary events that occurred during 

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the 2008 campaign, including the Commission's lack of a quorum for the first six 

months of that year; and 

• The Commission should determine that expenses incurred by JEFP in connection 

with a criminal proceeding regarding allegations of excessive campaign 

contributions are qualified campaign expenses (beyond winding down costs). 

Final Payroll 

Counsel states that the fmal payroll was in part to compensate employees for the extensive 

number of hours they worked in December 2007 and January 2008. There is nothing in 

the regulations that bars JEFP from paying staffers an increased amount retroactively for 

extra hours worked in previous pay periods, nor is there any regulation that bars JEFP 

from paying employees more than the half pay they were shorted on the January 30 

payroll to make up for the fact that employees were forced to wait for compensation that 

was due on that date.' In support of its position. Counsel attached a schedule that 

indicated 10 employees worked on average approximately 100 hours from January 6, 

2008, through January 13,2008. (Response at Attachment I). 

The final payroll check was in part to compensate employees for their work in closing 

down the campaign; closing 33 offices, returning rental equipment and vehicles, etc. In 

support, Counsel submitted copies of leases (Response at Attachment 2), four UPS 

shipping labels (Response at Attachment 3), a schedule of 42 rental cars and a list of 

payments made to 4 rental car companies (Response at Attachments 4 and 5), and copies 

of reimbursement requests and payments made to employees (Response at Attachments 6 

and 7). 

Counsel further stated that the Commission in the Final Audit Report determined that no 

portion of the staff salary payments made by JEFP to perform these tasks could be treated 

as qualified campaign expenses. This is patently unfair as it was imperative that JEFP 

have staff available to perform these tasks in order to close the campaign in a professional 

and responsible manner. Moreover, this conclusion directly contravenes the 

Commission's Financial Control and Compliance Manual (Manual), which specifically 

outlines close out procedures for publicly financed Presidential campaigns, including the 

need for committee personnel in order to close out offices at the state and national level. 

The Manual further advises committees to recognize the importance of preserving 

complete records of activity when closing down offices. Thus, while the Commission's 

own Manual goveming Presidential primary campaigns that receive public financing 

emphasizes the importance of staffing for closeout procedures, the Commission in this 

audit is not treating any of the amounts spent by JEFP for staff to close out the campaign 

as a qualified campaign expense. 

' Counsel is conect in stating that the payperiod that ended January 30,2008 (paid on 

February 7,2008) represented half of what each employee was entitled, however, as the 

Final Audit Report explains, the NOCO includes, as an accounts payable, the makeup pay 

of ($204,322) that fully compensates employees for the January 30, 2008 pay period. 

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When the campaign ended on January 30,2008, the majority of the staff had not yet 

submitted their expense reimbursement requests to the campaign for expenses incurred 

after January 15,2008. JEFP has reviewed its reimbursement records and found 73 

employees received no travel stipend or reimbursements for expenses incurred by them 

after January 15,2008. (Responses at Attachments 6 and 7). JEFP has calculated that 

$213,773 ofthe final payroll was payment to employees for expenses incurred pre-DOI 

and that $106,886 of the final payroll was payment to employees for expenses incurred 

post-DOI. 

Excess Entitlement Issues 

Counsel states that under statutory provisions, public fund payments made prior to a 

candidate's DOI are based on submission of qualifying contributions that are matched 

dollar for dollar, up to $250. However, where the candidate does not receive payment 

until after DOI, FEC regulations adopt a very different standard, premising a candidate's 

entitlement to public funds on the status of his or her net outstanding campaign 

obligations at the time of payment of those funds. Hence, the Commission has determined 

that JEFP should be required to repay any amounts not necessary to defray qualified 

campaign expenses. This in essence denies JEFP its full matching fund entitlement. 

According to Counsel, the Commission's repayment conclusion is essentially based on the 

timing of matching fund payments to JEFP. This timing was driven by a combination of 

two unprecedented and extraordinary events that occurred in 2008. First, there was a 

shortfall in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund (Fund), and candidates did not 

initially receive payment of public funds to which they were entitled. JEFP made 4 

submissions (11/1/07,12/3/07, 1/2/08 and 2/1/08) and should have received its first public 

fund payment in early January 2008, in the amount of $8.8 million, but this did not occur 

due to a shortfall in the Fund. 

Second, the lack of a quorum at the Commission for the first seven months of 2008 

resulted in the Commission having no legal authority to take official action and therefore 

the submission of matching fimds could not be certified for that period. Normally, 

campaign committees are able to deal with a shortfall in the Fund by obtaining bank loans 

based on FEC certification of matching fiind submissions. However, due to the conditions 

present in early 2008, JEFP's bank curtailed the amount that it could borrow on the basis 

of submissions certified by the Commission before it ceased operations. According to 

Counsel, these circumstances severely curtailed the ability of the campaign to continue 

because JEFP was unable to borrow anything near its full entitlement. 

Criminal Investigation and Indictment 

Counsel states that JEFP is involved in an extensive investigation and proceeding by the 

Department of Justice and that JEFP has incurred substantial and unanticipated expenses 

for its own representation in this matter, including additional staff, equipment and legal 

costs. Moreover, JEFP anticipates that it will incur extensive costs in future months as the 

Justice Department proceedings continue through trial, which could be followed by an 

appeals process. 

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Counsel fiirther states that none of these expenditures fall within the ambit of typical 

"winding down" costs, as defined in the regulations, because they are not incurred for a 

Commission audit, or for compliance with public financing laws. Rather, these costs are 

essentially qualified campaign expenses that go beyond winding down costs. Inasmuch as 

the Justice Department prosecution goes to the question of what contributions JEFP 

received, the proceedings clearly relate to a core activity of JEFP. 

Therefore, JEFP is seeking a determination from the Commission that it may re-allocate 

those costs it has already incurred and anticipates incurring as a result of criminal 

proceedings as qualified campaign expenses. In the altemative, JEFP requests that the 

Commission determine that, due to the unforeseen circumstances, the costs of dealing 

with the Justice Department investigation can be excluded firom the \0Vo cap on winding 

down costs. 

Counsel indicates that JEFP has incurred and anticipates incurring approximately 

$925,000 in connection with the criminal investigation related to the campaign. 

Legal Fees $320,000 - approximately 

New Computers and Software 21,801 

IT Services 37,305 

Staffing and Services 27,232 

Travel and Lodging 18,000 - approximately 

* Additional Anticipated Costs $500,000- approximately 

Counsel states that JEFP can provide additional backup information upon request of the 

Commission. 

The Audit staff offers the foUowing conceming JEFP's response: 

Counsel has restated all arguments made previously in responses to the exit conference. 

Preliminary Audit Report and Draft Final Audit Report, but submitted additional 

schedules in support of JEFP*s position. 

Final Payroll 

The Audit staff never doubted that JEFP used staff to close down state offices, retum 

equipment and rental cars, etc. The problem occurred when JEFP chose to make a third 

payroll payment to the entire campaign staff for the month of January and did not provide 

documentation to support this payment. 

JEFP's explanation for this extra pay is consistent with its earlier responses, in that it was 

to compensate employees for pre-DOI and post-DOI activities and extra hours that each 

employee worked. In support of its position that the entire campaign staff (99 individuals) 

worked extra hours, JEFP submitted a worksheet that shows 10 individuals worked an 

average of 100 hours over an 8 day period. There is no documentation pertaining to the 

hours worked by the remaining 89 employees. 

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Counsel also stated that the final payroll was in part to cover expenses incurred pre-DOI 

but not submitted for reimbursement as of DOI. 

"JEFP has reviewed its reimbursement records and found that 73 employees 

received no travel stipend or reimbursements for expenses incurred by them after 

January 15,2008. (Responses at Attachments 6 and 7). These staffers were paid 

nothing by JEFP for out-of-pocket expenses incurred for lodging, meals or 

transportation costs after Jan 15,2008." Response at page 4, section i. 

The documentation submitted at Attachments 6 and 7 does not support JEFP's position. 

In fact, the contrary is true. Attachments 6 and 7 include copies of checks ($12,426) and 

associated expense reimbursement requests from 40 individuals. Every payment 

submitted with the attachments had been previously included by the Audit staff as a 

qualified campaign expense and included in the Statement of Net Outstanding Campaign 

Expenses (NOCO) as either paid pre-DOI or as an account payable or winding down cost. 

Even though JEFP redacted most of the information on the check copies and the travel 

reimbursement request forms, it appears that the payments were for mileage, per diem, 

travel reimbursements and other expenses that JEFP indicated a portion ofthe payroll in 

question represented. Further, the fact that these payments for travel related expenses 

were paid at all appears to contradict JEFP's statement that it was not in a position to 

process individual expense reimbursements, including tracking down employees to obtain 

information from them. 

JEFP has calculated that $213,773 ofthe final payroll was payment to employees for 

expenses incurred pre-DOI and that $106,886 ofthe final payroll was payment to 

employees for expenses incurred post-DOI. Since JEFP has provided no documentation 

to support its calculated amounts ($213,773 and $106,886), it is impossible to determine if 

these amounts are in addition to those expenses listed in Attachments 6 and 7 or 

representative of amounts already included on the NOCO statement. 

Finally, Counsel's reference to the section of the Commission's Financial Control and 

Compliance Manual that addresses closing out campaign state offices is directly on point. 

Counsel stated, the Manual further advises committees to recognize the importance of 

preserving complete records of activity when closing down offices (emphasis added). 

This is exactly what the Audit staff has been requesting since fieldwork - documentation 

that supports JEFP's contention that the additional payments for salary relate to the 

closing down of JEFP's state offices. Although JEFP has had numerous opportunities to 

submit such documentation, it has not, but continues to insist that a portion ofthe 

February 7,2008, payroll represented these costs. Absent documentation, however, it is 

impossible for the Audit staff to substantiate JEFP's position. Therefore, it remains the 

Audit staffs opinion that $528,454 of the February 7,2008, payroll represents a nonqualified campaign expense. 

Excess Entitlement Issues 

Circumstances did exist in the first half of calendar year 2008 that delayed payments to all 

campaigns certified to receive matching fimds. However, JEFP was able to borrow $8.9 

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million in November and December of 2007. Therefore, JEFP received funds from its 

bank, representative of the amount of matching funds from its first two submissions, 

previously certified by the Commission, more than a month before it would have, even if 

the shortfall in the Fund did not exist. 

In past presidential election cycles, regardless of a shortfall, campaigns obtained approved 

lines of credit with banks and used this avenue to receive fimds well before matching 

fimds could be paid in early January of the election year. The associated loan agreements 

generally required campaigns to repay these loans when matching fimds were received. In 

this instance, the first $8.9 million in matching fund payments to JEFP went directly to the 

bank to repay its loan. Therefore, the shortfall in fimds did not adversely affect JEFP with 

respect to its first two matching fund requests. 

JEFP's third matching fiind submission was received on January 2,2008, in the amount of 

$1,474,046; however, only $1,146,939 represented matchable contributions, certified by 

the Commission on July 15,2008. If there had been no shortfall in the Fund, JEFP would 

have been paid at the end of January 2008, shortly before the Candidate's DOI (January 

30,2008). It does not appear that the delay in this payment affected JEFP's operations 

since its bank records reflect an average daily cash balance of approximately $4.2 million 

for January 2008,^ and the campaign for nomination ended on January 30,2008. 

JEFP's fourth and last matching fimd submission was received on February 1,2008, in the 

amount of $2,924,291; however, only $2,910,513 represented matchable contributions 

certified by the Commission on July 15,2008. At the time of this submission, JEFP had 

already been advised that $8,825,425 in payments from the Fund and had been certified. 

As noted above, JEFP had also submitted a third matching fimd submission of 

$1,474,046. Therefore, at the time of the fourth submission, JEFP knew it was certified to 

receive to at least $8,825,425 and could be certified for, at most, an additional $1,474,046. 

If JEFP had submitted an accurate NOCO with its fourth submission, it would have 

reflected a Net Outstanding Campaign Obligation (deficit) of about $11,100,000. 

Therefore, since JEFP had requested certification of $10,299,471 ($8,825,425 + 

$1,474,046), it should have only requested a remaining amount of approximately 

$800,529 and a total of about $1.9 million would have been paid to JEFP in July 2008 for 

the third and fourth submissions ($1,146,939 + 800,529). However, due an overstatement 

of its NOCO, JEFP received over $4 million dollars in July 2008, which is $2,13(5,507 

more than it was ever entitled. JEFP is therefore required to repay the U.S. Treasury this 

amount. 

Criminal Investigation and Indictment 

Counsel stated that JEFP has incurred approximately $425,000 in legal fees, computers, 

software, IT services, staffing, travel and lodging and anticipated incurring approximately 

$500,000 in additional costs in connection with the criminal investigation related to the 

campaign. Counsel fiuther stated that JEFP had already spent $21,801 on new computers 

and software; $37,305 on FT services; $27,232 on staffing; and $18,000 on travel and 

lodging in connection with the criminal investigation, but did not provided any 

2 This amount does not include general election contributions received by JEFP. 

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documentation or details supporting the calculations of these costs but stated it could 

provide additional backup if requested. 

Similar expenses described above were included by the Audit staff in the NOCO 

statement, either as actual or estimated costs necessary to wind down the campaign. It is 

unclear from JEFP's response, however, if the costs incurred for the criminal investigation 

or indictment were additional costs that have not been reported to the Commission or are a 

portion of the costs that have already been included in the NOCO statement. In either 

case, as stated in the Audit Division Recommendation Memorandum, the Audit staff 

believes that expenditures related to the Justice Department investigation are permissible 

winding down costs subject to the winding down expense limitation at 11 CFR 

§9034.11(b). The Explanation and Justification for this regulation appears to contemplate 

this type of activity. While discussing a commenter* s argument that the Commission 

could create a fimd for primary candidates like the GELAC (which is for general election 

candidates), the Commission provided a number of reasons why such a fiind was not 

necessary. The Commission concluded that a new primary legal defense fiind for 

enforcement matters and other legal proceedings (emphasis added), or a primary legal and -

compliance fiind similar to a GELAC, is not necessary or appropriate for primary election 

candidates. 

The Explanation and Justification further states: 

"This limitation only applies to the use of public fimds or a mixture of 

public and private fimds for winding down costs. The final rule allows a 

primary candidate who is in a deficit position at DOI to pay for winding 

down costs in excess of the limitation after the committee's accoimts no 

longer contain any matching iimds." 

The last matching payment received by JEFP was $4,057,453, on July 17,2008. 

Ofthis amount, JEFP was only entitled to $1,920,946 ($4,057,453 - $2,136,507 

(repayment amount)). Based on JEFP's expenditures after July 17,2008, the 

matching funds ($1,920,946) would have been exhausted from JEFP bank 

accounts as of April 30, 2010. Therefore, after JEFP repays $2,136,507 to the 

U.S. Treasury, it may make additional expenditures related to the criminal 

defense legal proceedings, if necessary, without incurring non-qualified 

campaign expense(s) since matching fimds will no longer be in JEFP's bank 

accounts. 

It is therefore the opinion of the Audit staff that no adjustment to the amount of matching 

fimds determined to be in excess of the Candidate's entitlement is warranted. 

All work papers and related documentation are available for review in the Audit Division. 

Should you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact Alex Boniewicz or 

Mary Moss at (202) 694-1200. 

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