shareUpdate: Mathieson Details Theft
Date: 07/17/2010
Former Del. Robert Mathieson of Virginia Beach filed a series of amended campaign finance reports that detail $52,915 in authorized expenditures from his campaign account made by his former legislative aide during 2008 and 2009.
The former aide, Jason W. Robinson has been sentenced to three years behind bars and ordered to repay the Mathieson campaign, according to The Associated Press.
Mathieson reports that his campaign's credit card was used more than 900 times for fine meals, Brooks Brothers clothing, health club memberships and nights on the town. Robinson's favorite hang out was Catch 31, an oceanfront restaurant in the Hilton Hotel in Virginia Beach where the tab came to more than $10,000.
View list of unauthorized transactions
Mathieson discovered the theft in September 2009 while in the middle a tough re-election battle, which he lost to Republican Ron Villanueva by 16 votes.