Lewis, Daughter Used Same PAC LawyerSuch a small world.
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA), the powerful House appropriations chief who’s under investigation, hired a lawyer by the name of Barbara Bonfiglio to be treasurer of his own political action committee, Future Leaders PAC.
And who was the treasurer who helped found the Small Biz Tech PAC, run by Lewis’ stepdaughter, Julie Willis-Leon? That’s right: Barbara Bonfiglio.
Bonfiglio served as treasurer from the time of the group’s creation in March 2005 to this February, when she was replaced by William B. Canfield, another partner at Bonfiglio’s firm, Williams and Jensen.
Bonfiglio worked for a number of PACs with unfortunate histories of taking shady donations, including both Tom DeLay’s ARMPAC, Randy “Duke” Cunningham’s American Prosperity PAC. Around the time she stepped down from being treasurer of Willis-Leon’s PAC, she left similar positions with all of the others and abruptly left Williams and Jensen.
