TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Aug 31, 2021

The Tennessee Democratic Party (TNDP) will pay a $103,000 civil penalty to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) after an audit uncovered a series of financial reporting issues from the 2016 election cycle, the Nashville Post reports. Regulators found that TNDP improperly reported millions of dollars in contributions and kept lax records on employee time. The FEC accepted a conciliation agreement last month, in which the state party agreed to pay $103,000 over the next eight months. The first proposed fine was $352,000. TNDP Chair Hendrell Remus, who was not head of the party in 2016, said a former compliance contractor was at fault for the issues and that he is putting “processes in place to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”