CREW claims FEC wrongfully withholds Westar's report
The Business Journal of Kansas City reports: A motion filed in a federal lawsuit accuses the Federal Election Commission of wrongly shielding a Westar Energy Inc. report on political donations from the Freedom of Information Act and asks the judge to require the agency to produce the report.
The report resulted from the May 2003 revelation of company e-mails allegedly describing former Chairman David Wittig's efforts to "get a seat at the table" in Congress with political donations.
Although Westar has said it surrendered the report to the FEC earlier this year, neither the company nor the agency has released it to the public.
The motion for summary judgment filed in U.S. District Court in Washington alleges that the FEC failed to properly search for the Westar document despite the suit and previous requests from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. -- Motion: Election agency wrongly withheld Westar report - 2004-12-27 - The Business Journal of Kansas City