Article: Congressional hopeful fined $280,000 for campaign violations

RONALD POWERS Associated Press Writer
AP Online
05-27-1998
WASHINGTON (AP) _ A Long Island lawyer who twice ran unsuccessfully for Congress has agreed to pay a $280,000 fine, among the largest penalties ever imposed by the Federal Election Commission, for accepting illegal amounts of campaign money from his family, then lying about it.

Grant Lally, a Republican who tried to unseat Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., admitted receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from his father and law partner, attorney Lawrence Lally, and falsely reporting it.

The FEC has imposed only two penalties larger than Lally's civil penalty, to be paid by him and his parents.

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