The former Democratic strategist who investigated and exposed the campaign finance violations that ultimately put both state House Speaker Jim Black and NC House Rep. Thomas Wright in prison, told The Wilmington Journal first and exclusively Wednesday that he is calling on the NC State Board of Elections [NCBOE], the Wake County District Attorney, and the NC State Bar to investigate Sen. Julia Boseman’s claims that she had permission to forge the name of her former campaign treasurer on legal campaign disclosure documents in direct violation of state law.
And Sen. Boseman had to know better, Joe Sinsheimer, the political watchdog who brought both Black and Wright down, maintains. Not only is she a licensed attorney, but Boseman actually voted at least five times to pass the law in the state Senate just last year, after she served on the Senate committee which debated it prior to passage.
That law, NC General Statute 163-278.32, clearly states that the campaign treasurer’s signature on a campaign finance disclosure report “…shall be certified as true and correct to the best of the knowledge of the …treasurer.”
The statute adds, “A certification under this Article shall be treated as under oath, and any person making a certification under this Article knowing the information to be untrue is guilty of a Class I felony.”
According to the structured sentencing chart of the NC criminal courts system, punishment for the low-level Class I felony is a minimum of three months community punishment, and a maximum of eight months with no prior criminal record.
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