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F. Harvey Whittemore, 59, of Reno, Nevada, was convicted of making unlawful Senate campaign contributions in 2007.
A jury found F. Harvey Whittemore guilty of one count of making excessive campaign contributions, one count of making contributions in the name of others, and one count of causing a materially false statement to be made to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
According to the indictment, Whittemore was the chief executive of Wingfield Nevada Group and was a registered lobbyist in Nevada when he devised a scheme to unlawfully use about 29 family members, employees, and their spouses as conduits to funnel more than $130,000 of his own money to the campaign.
Whittemore agreed to raise $150,000 in contributions for a U.S. Senator’s campaign committee by March 31, 2007. However, he was aware of the strict limits on individual federal campaign contributions, which were $2,300 for a primary election and $2,300 for a general election. The maximum for one candidate was $4,600.
Whittemore concealed the scheme from the FEC, the Senator, and the Senator’s campaign committee. In March 2007, he solicited family members, his employees, and their spouses to make the maximum campaign donations to the Senator’s campaign and reimbursed or advanced the money to the contributors with personal checks and wire transfers.
On or about March 28, 2007, Whittemore caused one of his employees to transmit $138,000 in contributions to the Senator’s campaign committee, the vast majority of which were conduit contributions that Whittemore had personally funded in order to satisfy his pledge to the Senator.
On April 15, 2007, the Senator’s campaign then unknowingly filed a false report with the FEC stating that the conduits had made the contributions, when in fact, Whittemore had made them.
F. Harvey Whittemore is free on a personal recognizance bond pending sentencing.
Key Facts
- State: Nevada
- Category: Public Corruption
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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