Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017.
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The Federal Election Commission fined the Senate campaign of Jeff Sessions $15,000 for failing to properly disclose a last-minute, $150,000 loan from the candidate.
Campaigns are required to notify the FEC within 48 hours about any contributions or loans they receive greater than $1,000 in the 20-day period before election day.
On June 30, 2020, two weeks before a Republican primary runoff against Tommy Tuberville, Sessions lent his campaign $150,000. But the campaign did not disclose the loan until July, after Sessions had lost the runoff to Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a former football coach who then went on to defeat Democrat Doug Jones in the general election.
“[Sessions] gained the strategic advantage of duping his opponent into thinking his campaign had less money to spend than it actually did in the final days of the campaign,”…