$2,000 + $2,000 ≠ $3,000
TVT has learned that Detroit Casino Syndicator Michael J. Malik, Sr. may have once again violated California’s Political Reform Act when he forwarded two checks totaling $4,000 to Friends of Pat Wiggins on 10/21/06. Malik and his affiliate MJM Enterprises & Development each contributed $2,000 to Wiggins and failed to report the contributions as a major donor before 1/31/07; an apparent violation of the Act.
Under the Act, the contributions must be taken in aggregate; and in 2006 an individual could not give more than $3,000 to a single candidate for state office. Malik used two different names to give Wiggins $4,000. Wiggins marked both contributions toward the November ’06 election cycle.
Wiggins received checks from both the Michael J. Malik, Sr. Trust and the Malik controlled affiliate MJM Enterprises & Development on the last day of a pre-election reporting cycle (10/21/06) but didn’t report them to the Secretary of State in the same disclosure report – Wiggins didn’t report the MJM Enterprises check for more than two months -- nor did her committee report it under late campaign disclosure requirements.
Wiggins apparently violated the Act when she accepted both checks from Malik, cashed them and failed to return $1,000.
Senator Patricia Wiggins had agreed sometime before a January 30, 2007 press party to be principal author of SB 157, a bill to approve gaming compacts for Malik’s casino partners. Wiggins is one of only three legislators who have indicated publicly that they support the bill since it was introduced in January.
In October 2006, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission fined Barwest LLC, Malik’s Detroit-based casino development and management company, for failing on two counts to report a $26,600 campaign contribution to then-Rep. Richard Pombo’s San Joaquin County GOP Committee.
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