Clear Channel Outdoor has agreed to pay $30,000 in fines for failing to properly disclose its role in providing billboards touting candidates, including Rocky Delgadillo in his 2001 run for Los Angeles city attorney, according to documents released Wednesday.
The firm launched a controversial independent expenditure campaign to promote Delgadillo, and the billboard campaign was seen as a factor in his victory over Councilman Mike Feuer.
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"Failing to fully disclose its sponsorship of the political advertisements … had the potential to mislead large numbers of voters about whether candidate-controlled committees rather than
paid for previously identified billboards supporting city candidates Delgadillo and Greuel, thereby making these violations serious," said a report on the case prepared by the Ethics Commission staff.
The commission had rejected a previous proposal that would have allowed the firm to pay $9,500 in fines, which members said did not reflect the seriousness of the violations.
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