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October 14, 2004 | Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer
In the two years since Kevin Shelley became California's chief elections official, his state-paid staff has been repeatedly assigned duties that promote his private political agenda, records and interviews show. State law prohibits using public employees for private political purposes, and Shelley as secretary of state is expected to run his office in a nonpartisan fashion.
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September 24, 2004 | Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer
After being granted immunity from prosecution, two major donors to Secretary of State Kevin Shelley testified Thursday before a federal grand jury investigating his campaign finances. Both donors maintained that they did not know Shelley when they each contributed $25,000 to his 2002 campaign, sources said. And neither of them did any work for a community center that allegedly reimbursed their contributions with money from a state grant that had been arranged by Shelley.
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February 19, 2005 | Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer
Longtime civic leader Thelma Shelley -- widow of a San Francisco mayor and mother of Secretary of State Kevin Shelley -- died Friday in a San Francisco hospital after a brief illness, a spokesman for Kevin Shelley announced. She was 84. Thelma Shelley, who helped run some of the city's most important cultural institutions for two decades, had been hospitalized with pneumonia since Feb. 2.
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November 15, 2003 | Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer
Secretary of State Kevin Shelley has removed the daughter of a voting machine company official from her new job helping to screen election machines for use in California. Shelley, who is tightening conflict-of-interest rules for his office, said he had ordered the job change for Brianna Lierman to avoid the appearance of a conflict.
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January 3, 2005 | Dan Morain, Times Staff Writer
For the first time since the Capitol's "Shrimpgate" scandal more than a decade ago, California legislators open their session today knowing that the FBI is hovering not far away. By issuing subpoenas, conducting searches and convening grand juries in Oakland and Sacramento, the feds have made their presence unmistakable as they investigate dealings by the new state Senate leader, Don Perata, and Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, a former legislator. Both men are Democrats.
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May 13, 2006 | Nancy Vogel, Times Staff Writer
The federal government on Friday ordered California to give back $536,000, saying that funds allocated to improve elections were misused by former Secretary of State Kevin Shelley. A federal audit found that Shelley either misspent or didn't properly account for more than $3 million of the $8 million reviewed. The federal government also ordered $2.5 million to be returned to state election coffers. Much of the $536,000 that federal elections officials ordered returned to the U.S.
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October 26, 2006 | Seema Mehta, Times Staff Writer
When Secretary of State Bruce McPherson recently called on the state to sue his predecessor, he said disgraced Democrat Kevin Shelley's misdeeds would cost California taxpayers nearly $3 million in misspent federal election dollars. But in appeals from his office to a federal elections commission nearly a year ago, McPherson's staff argued that a third of that amount was properly spent. McPherson said his office at that time was trying to lower the amount the state would be forced to repay.
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January 11, 2005 | Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer
The head of a committee investigating California's handling of federal election funds threatened Monday to seek a subpoena for Secretary of State Kevin Shelley if he doesn't agree to testify. Shelley did not appear as the Joint Legislative Audit Committee opened its first hearing into a state audit that found last month that his office mismanaged $46 million allocated under the federal Help America Vote Act.
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January 12, 2005 | Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer
The head of a legislative committee investigating California's handling of federal election funds gave Secretary of State Kevin Shelley a two-day extension Tuesday to decide whether he will testify voluntarily. Assemblywoman Nicole Parra (D-Hanford) told Shelley she would seek a subpoena if he does not agree by 10 a.m. Thursday to testify before the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, which she leads.
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January 14, 2005 | Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer
With the threat of a subpoena looming, California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley agreed Thursday to testify voluntarily before a legislative committee examining what auditors concluded was Shelley's mismanagement of $46 million in federal election funds. Assemblywoman Nicole Parra (D-Hanford) was poised to seek a subpoena to compel the elections chief to testify before the Joint Legislative Audits Committee, which she heads. But five minutes before Parra's 10 a.m.