MAINE: Ethics Investigators Recommend NOM Be Fined $50K For Cloaking Donors

Via the Bangor Daily News:

Maine ethics investigators are recommending more than $50,000 in fines for a national anti-gay-marriage organization for failing to register and disclose its activities in Maine’s 2009 same-sex marriage referendum. That year, an effort to legalize same-sex marriage — approved by the Legislature and signed by then-Gov. John Baldacci — was repealed at the ballot box with 53 percent of the vote. National Organization for Marriage was the largest contributor to the ’09 anti-gay-marriage campaign, and dumped roughly $2 million into the state. That money was integral in defeating the fledgling marriage equality law. The Maine Ethics Commission launched an investigation into NOM, alleging the group had violated Maine law by not registering as a ballot question committee and providing detailed reports about its fundraising and spending.

They'll never pay. (Tipped by JMG reader Seth)