Appeals court's ruling in favor of ex-U.S. Rep. David Rivera may be fatal to FEC's mission
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
When a federal appeals court threw out the Federal Election Commission’s $456,000 judgment against former Republican Miami congressman David Rivera last week, it may also have inflicted a mortal blow to the FEC.
FEC staff dogged Rivera for years before obtaining a 2021 ruling from the late Miami U.S. District Court Judge Marcia Cooke granting its motion for summary judgment. That ruling asserted that documentary evidence, corroborating witness testimony and Rivera’s own statements established that he’d secretly funded the Democratic primary campaign of Justin Lamar Sternad to weaken his eventual 2012 general election opponent, Joe Garcia. It didn’t work. Rivera lost to Garcia.
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