The Daily Beast:  “This spring, after receiving a number of federal warnings about a series of accounting errors, the campaign committee for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) embarked on a financial reckoning.  As a result of that reckoning, the campaign has now had to correct a slew of reports, and two of Nunes’ affiliated committees removed his treasurer—his mom—as their government contact.

“But over the last few months, Nunes’ mother, Toni Nunes, has filed a confounding series of financial disclosures. The reports attempt to correct an array of accounting errors and oversights, some dating back to 2004, and because the errors carry over from one accounting period to the next, all subsequent filings were also incorrect—meaning the California Republican’s books have been off for 17 years.

“But even after the embarrassing cascade of notices that inundated the campaign over the last year, Nunes’ mom has continued filing and signing reports herself. One of the corrected reports she filed this month—itself a correction of a correction—was flagged for additional errors a few days after she submitted it.

“The filings reveal several inconsistencies, most glaringly that over the years a number of people and entities have apparently not cashed checks from the Nunes campaign. (At least two of the donors died, one of them passing away this August without cashing the $2,700 refund first issued in 2018.) This month, the campaign reported it had disgorged tens of thousands of dollars in uncashed refund checks to the U.S. Treasury. In another report it clawed back uncashed payments for goods and services—such as $2,700 in tickets to an unknown event the campaign apparently attempted to purchase from Bank of America in 2008. The oversights total nearly $40,000 in aggregate. …

“The difference with Nunes is not only the amount of refunds, but the lapsed time. For instance, one of Donald Trump’s lawyers, John Dowd, never banked the $3,700 that the Trump campaign refunded him in 2018. However, it took the Trump operation less than a year to square it away. The Nunes campaign, on the other hand, failed to account for uncashed payments over several years. And some of its voided refunds even come with a clarifying note: ‘Not in violation.’”