Campaign finance panel to subpoena Rep. Glen Casada, former top aide in audit of PAC
Former House Speaker Glen Casada, his former aide Cade Cothren and several others will be subpoenaed as part of a reopened audit of a political action committee, state ethics and campaign finance officials decided Thursday.
Members of the Registry of Election Finance voted to reopen an audit of the Faith Family Freedom Fund PAC after the PAC's treasurer stated under oath that she opened the PAC at Cothren's request, but had no further involvement in its operations.
The registry voted to issue subpoenas for information related to the Faith Family Freedom Fund PAC to Cothren, Casada, and multiple others who may have knowledge of the PAC, including:
Rep. Todd Warner, R-Chapel Hill
Rep. Charlie Baum, R-Murfreesboro
Former Rep. Rick Tillis, who Warner unseated in the August 2020 Republican primary
Carol Simpson, Casada's longtime assistant
The Registry may issue additional subpoenas to other individuals in the future.
The subpoenas will include any and all records, correspondence and electronic communications of all kinds by and between the subpoenaed individuals. Members of the board emphasized the subpoenas do not indicate judgment and intend only to gather information.
Read more: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/13/campaign-finance-panel-subpoena-rep-glen-casada-former-top-aide/6514714001/
