So former National Republican Campaign Committee treasurer Chris Ward seems to have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from the NRCC. But the NRCC was not the only one he might have been taking from, according to The Politico:
One GOP insider said Ward also diverted funds from the leadership PACs and re-election campaigns for which he worked, usually in smaller amounts, although the insider said the total taken from those PACs and campaigns may actually end up being greater than the losses suffered by the NRCC itself….A GOP source said that, in some cases, Ward cut checks, in small amounts, from a lawmaker’s campaign or leadership PAC directly to his own bank account. At other times, the sources said, Ward used a dummy company as a go-between, but the money finally ended up in his account.
The source said that Ward issued a $4,208 check to himself in December from Rep. Jeb Hensarling’s (R-Texas) PAC, although he returned that money in early February, after the NRCC accounting scandal became public.