State Grand Jury Focusing on Maziarz Campaign Fund

I reported last October that the State Attorney General’s office was focusing squarely on the campaign account of former State Sen. George Maziarz and the former senator himself, and we have now learned that subpoenas have been issued in that investigation and evidence could be presented to a grand jury as soon as later this month.

Sources familiar with the probe say that Maziarz, who has consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection with his campaign account that once totaled more than $1 million, is among the targets of the grand jury investigation and there may be others.

When Maziarz announced in July of 2014 that he would not seek re-election in the 62nd District after 19 years, he said it had nothing to do with reports that federal investigators had expanded their corruption probe into his campaign account, adding that “I will be completely exonerated because I have done absolutely nothing wrong.”

Sources say the state probe is focusing on campaign transactions from the former senator’s account dating back to 2009 and totaling more than $151,000, as contained in an amended spending report filed last month with the state Board of Elections by his former treasurer, Laureen Jacobs. It includes many thousands of dollars in transactions charged to the former senator’s debit card.

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