Some campaign finance reports for U.S. Rep. Greg Pence, R-Ind., were amended after his office was questioned about expenses for lodging at hotels named for President Donald Trump.
Pence, a Columbus resident, is a freshman congressman representing Indiana’s 6th District who was elected to the position Nov. 6. He’s also one of Vice President Mike Pence’s brothers. Of 22 filing entries regarding expenditures at Trump hotels in either Washington, D.C., or New York dating to November 2017, six were amended by Greg Pence’s campaign — all dated Nov. 14, 2018, or later.
Five originally were listed as “lodging expense” and one as a “reception expense.” All six — totaling $13,631.02 in expenditures at the Trump International Hotel in Washington — were changed to “fundraising event costs.” The items that were changed were not personal living expenses, Pence’s chief of staff Kyle Robertson said.
“All the expenses incurred by the campaign were fundraising event expenses,” Robertson said. “There was a clarification made on one reference point to which we did not have to amend but chose to … to reflect the true nature of the expense.”
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