Fact-checking claim on Beto O'Rourke, 2018 campaign contributions

An old claim about campaign contributions to Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 U.S. Senate campaign has resurfaced in a popular Facebook post.The post, formatted as a timeline, makes allegations of illegal actions by gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke. One of the claims, written in present tense for 2018, says: “FEC charges Illegal Campaign Contributions.”PolitiFact Texas reached out to the current O’Rourke campaign. Chris Evans, communications director, wrote, “No, the FEC did not charge Beto or our senate campaign for illegal campaign contributions.”Evans noted the FEC conducts reviews of finance reports and routinely requests additional details from campaigns. “In this case, the FEC asked a common question about a few donations from individuals with foreign addresses and contributions exceeding the federal limit,” Evans said. “The donations that had foreign addresses attached to them were made by U.S. citizens who were living overseas at the time, which is permissible. Any contributions above the federal limit were refunded to the contributors as is a common practice in federal races.”Christian Hilland, deputy press officer at the Federal Election Commission, said in an Aug. 24 email that the Commission has civil jurisdiction over federal campaign finance law and reviews issues for enforcement on a case-by-case basis. For example if there is…
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