RNC Chairman Steele's Newest Aide Misused Baseball Groups' Money
By Annie Groer / Politics Daily
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele -- who really can't afford another 'holy ----" story after a GOP staffer dropped $1,900 at a lesbian-bondage themed Hollywood club and a top conservative called for an RNC donor boycott--has hired a new "special assistant for finance."
Although described by many as a smart, gifted and glib fundraiser, Neil S. Alpert, 31, who began work on March 29, probably won't do much to burnish Steele's image as a money manager.
This is the same Neil S. Alpert who in July 2007 was ordered by the city to repay nearly $70,000 in unauthorized expenses and unaccounted funds from a pair of local baseball groups he had chaired. He was also fined $4,000.
The 10-page order from the DC Office of Campaign Finance, issued after a lengthy probe, stated Alpert used "substantial amounts" of DC Baseball PAC funds "to defray his personal expenses" and that there were "numerous inaccuracies and omissions" in Alpert's receipts-and-expenditures report. The order also stated Alpert improperly co-mingled money from the PAC and its non-profit successor, the DC Baseball Association, whose bank accounts he controlled.
The OCF repayment order quotes DC Baseball Association president Allen Madison saying Alpert used the funds as his "personal piggy bank."
Alpert paid $4,000 in fines in August 2007, OCF general counsel Kathy Williams told me on April 2. But he never repaid a dime of the $69,528.24 in missing or misspent funds, she said, citing a "mediation agreement" with the baseball groups.
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