William Dodd

Behested Payments

Fine: $7,500

FPPC No. 19/439

Dodd is a member of the California State Senate, District 3. In 2017 and 2018, numerous donors made charitable payments in amounts of $5,000 or more to the Salvation Army and the Napa Valley Education Foundation at Dodd’s behest, but Dodd failed to timely report 27 of these payments, totaling $481,900, in violation of Government Code Section 82015, subdivision (b)(2)(B)(iii), as in effect prior to 2018, and Section 84224, as in effect after 2017 (5 counts).