The progressive organization MoveOn.org has reached an agreement with the Federal Election Commission to pay $43,000 in civil penalties for failing to notify the agency about independent expenditures totaling over half a million dollars during the 2008 election.MoveOn and its treasurer Wes Boyd maintain in the agreement that “inadvertent administrative or technical errors” caused them not to file 48-hour notices for 12 independent expenditures totaling $557,082.36.
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