Ken Stone
10/24/22
(Times of San Diego) A Democratic-aligned watchdog group is calling out Republican congressional candidate Brian Maryott for not fulfilling a promise to amend his financial disclosures. In August, End Citizens United found public Venmo records that suggest Maryott and his committee — with him as treasurer — made payments via that mobile app to campaign staffers. The group filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission….This week, End Citizens United said it found no record of amended FEC filings. “For example, in January and February 2021, Maryott made ‘reimbursement’ payments to Ricky Guthridge, a campaign staffer,” the group told Times of San Diego. “The FEC website shows no such reimbursements in early 2021, which is when those Venmo payments were made.”…But End Citizens United spokesman Bawadden Sayed said: “Brian Maryott continues to disregard the law. His campaign acknowledged wrongdoing, but neither ‘quickly’ or ‘proactively’ amended his reports. It was a lie.” He said Maryott’s failure to report such payments is “a red flag and raises more questions about what else he may be hiding.”…“They ended up changing their Venmo settings to private, so we can’t see what has taken place since the screenshots that were included in the initial complaint,” ECU’s Sayed said Friday.