Not that it won't make a hell of a big difference, but the Federal election committee has found some spending irregularities about the quarter million dollars that Joe Lieberman spent on his reelection bid last summer.
According to the agency, Lieberman spent $4,600 on helicopter service in New Jersey, $4,000 in "excess funds" to Vernon Democrat Joesph Courtney to try to unseat US Rep. Rob Simmons, and on Sept. 30th of last year, refunded $2,500 in contributions from Mark Wertheim, a West Hartford businessman linked to the corruption scandal of former Gov. John Rowland.
Wertheim had functioned as a landlord for a company owned by his wife, which secured two leases for state offices at a former shopping center in Windsor that were worth at least $840,000 a year. Also the Wertheim's were personal friends with Rowland's, and treated them to skiing vacations with some of the money.
An FEC offical wrote Lieberman's campaign committee failed to specify some $264,217 in expenditures and $16,892 in other disbursements.
Sherry Brown, assisstant treasurer of the "friends for Lieberman" committee said that the report was "inadvertently" missing the disbursement information, and apologized. She also said that the Lieberman campaign would set everything right in the future.