Louisiana Congressman Cleo Fields has been fined $2,500 by the state Board of Ethics for failing to submit a required report on his long-dormant campaign account from his 2004 Public Service Commission race, Louisiana Illuminator writes.
Fields, a Baton Rouge Democrat elected to Congress in 2024, declined to comment Friday. The missing filing—due in February—was supposed to detail any 2024 spending or debt forgiveness tied to that decades-old campaign.
Despite lawmakers recently raising the reporting threshold from $2,500 to $5,000, Fields’ account still qualifies: It held $3,470 in leftover contributions at the end of 2023 and more than $317,000 in personal loans he made to the campaign.
Fields requested a waiver, but ethics officials rejected it—citing his history of late filings, which previously resulted in nearly $3,000 in fines.
