Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson has been fined $37,500 for failing to report over $3.5 million in donations he solicited for charity organizations.
The Associated Press reports the Fair Political Practices Commission said on Monday that it had identified 25 cases in which Johnson failed to file timely reports on donations to a nonprofit made at his request. Since Johnson is an elected official, he must report such donations, otherwise known as “behest payments.”
Johnson is married to former D.C. Schools Chancellor and education reformerMichelle Rhee, who has come under fire for being tight-lipped about funding to her StudentsFirst organization, a national lobbying and advocacy group that pushes for rigorous teacher evaluations and school choice. Rhee is not said to have any connection to the charges against Johnson.
The FPPC investigation was sparked by a September Sacramento Bee report thatrevealed thousands of dollars in donations to the mayor's Think Big arena task force had gone unreported past the required deadline. In some instances, they were reported several months late.
According to the Sacramento Bee, other late-reported donations solicited by Johnson went to City Year, a national program he recruited to Sacramento that places young tutors and mentors in schools, and to Teach for America, the teacher training 


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