Forensic review finds improprieties in Delaware gubernatorial candidate’s campaign finances

— A forensic review commissioned by the state Department of Elections has uncovered significant improprieties in the campaign finances of Delaware’s lieutenant governor, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. Lampinski, a retired FBI senior executive, also found that Hall-Long’s husband and former campaign treasurer, Dana Long, wrote four campaign checks to himself but falsely reported that they had been written to someone else. The report also recounts a June 14 interview in which Lampinski asked Dana Long about a note that was written by Hall-Long and found in a folder entitled “2020 Campaign.” The note read, “2019/2020 Files Need to create 2021 & 2022 receipts!” “When I pointed out she had written ‘create’ receipts, and not ‘gather’ or ‘collect’ receipts, Long said he couldn’t ‘answer for her terminology,’” Lampinski wrote. Tom Foley, an attorney for Dana Long, also did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment, but he told Elections Commissioner Anthony Albence in a July 18 email that Lampinski’s report contained “misrepresentations” about the June 14 interview. Albence told Hall-Long that he did not intend to refer the matter to the attorney general’s office, but that he expected her committee to “take prompt corrective action” by filing amended campaign finance reports.