Mahoney Expenditures Incurred Master File

Posted: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 by Pezzonovante in Labels: , ,
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The link below is to a master file of expenses incurred by State Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-51) between January 01, 2007 (the month he first took office) and February 12, 2013.

The file was obtained from the House of Representatives, Office of the Comptroller via a Right-To-Know law request made years ago.

That is the reason why the numbers only reach to February 2013.


Expenditures of particular note:

Pages 26 – 27:  An expenditure (in addition to the 02/26/2008 claims for $394.18 for Gas & Oil) of $63.30 for Gas & Oil (bottom of Page 26) on 02/28/2008 and another expenditure for $78.25 for Parking & Tolls on 02/28/2008 (second expenditure from the top of Page 27) that call into question whether state taxpayers funded Rep. Mahoney’s trip to Pittsburgh on 02/28/2008 to testify for the release of a twice-convicted, violent, drug felon on illegal possession of firearm charges.  See: here and Mahoney Witness at Detention Hearing.

Page 101:  Voucher Number 111380118, Printing-Other, 04/29/2011, $51.73.  Charge to taxpayers for printing of Rep. Mahoney's fatally flawed referendum petitions.  For confirmation the expenditure was for the referendum petitions, please see the expenditure of $51.73 near the bottom of Page 5 here.


Pages 103 – 107:  Eighteen Session Per Diems/Non Session Per Diems, of $160.00 during the purported circulation period of Mahoney's Referendum Petitions.  These 18 per diem claims place Rep. Tim Mahoney in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, during his purported circulation period of June 1 – August 8, 2011, making it impossible that he was present before the circulating petitions, as required by PA Supreme Court case precedent for an affiant to sign petition Affidavits of Circulator lawfully.  These 18 per diem claims stand as testament that, on August 9, 2011, State Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-51) knowingly and willfully executed altered and falsely sworn Affidavits of Circulator before notaries public, which is punishable in Pennsylvania under perjury statutes, and which was covered extensively in this post from October 8.   

Page 120:  Three Committee Per Diem charges for 02/21/2012, 02/22/2012, and 02/23/2012, for $163.00, which place Rep. Mahoney in Harrisburg on the day (02/21/2012) records show him as the only person on the planet to retrieve both the Gary Gearing and Michael Cavanagh nominating petitions from the Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Commissions, Elections, and Legislation.

A $5,000 expenditure made by the Friends of Tim Mahoney campaign committee on 02/22/2012 -- the very day Attorney Ronald J. Brown of Grogan Graffam, P.C. finalized the petition challenges against Gearing and Cavanagh (Mahoney’s opponents in the 2012 Primary Election) -- precipitated multiple voucher requests and court actions.  The Friends of Tim Mahoney never produced the voucher for the $5,000 expenditure (see: FrofTMahoney Cycle2 2012, bottom of Page 13) to Grogan Graffam, P.C.  Instead, the Friends of Tim Mahoney and the PA Dept. of State fought tooth-and-nail in court against the release of the details of the expenditure.

Rep. Mahoney’s campaign committee’s actions/inaction led to the obliteration of the Voucher Request statute (i.e., the ability of persons to see the particulars of campaign committee expenditures in Pennsylvania), which FS covered extensively here and here.

Thus, the seminal “accomplishment” of State Rep. Tim Mahoney’s tenure in office is the destruction of campaign expenditure transparency for all persons who desire to make a request to see the particulars of campaign expenditures in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania!

Gentle readers, feel free to search through the expenditures for yourselves.

Who knows what else one might turn up? 











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