{"id":5516,"date":"2026-08-20T01:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/?page_id=5516"},"modified":"2026-08-20T01:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:24:04","slug":"item-06","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/2026-08\/item-06\/","title":{"rendered":"6. In the Matter of James Knell, 127 WCP, LLC, 710 State St. Partners, LP, 1129 State Street, LP, 1213 State Street, LLC, 1221 Victoria Court, LP, RTK Associates, LP, Santa Barbara Athletic Club, Sima Corporation, Sima El Paseo, LP, and Sima Management Corporation; FPPC No. 21\/1022."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff: Kevin Cornwall, Senior Commission Counsel. The Respondents are represented by Robert A. Curtis of Foley Bezek Behle &amp; Curtis, LLP. James Knell owns the businesses identified as respondents in this matter. Through his businesses, Knell contributed over $40,000 to four campaign committees controlled by candidates running for the Santa Barbara City Council. Knell exceeded local campaign contributions and failed to timely file two major donor statements, in violation of Government Code Section 84200(b) (2 counts), and failed to timely file a 24-Hour Report, in violation of Government Code Section 84203 (1 count).<strong>\u00a0Total Proposed Penalty: $12,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fppc.ca.gov\/siteassets\/documents\/enforcement_div\/stipulations\/2026\/august\/james-knell-et-al.-fppc-no.-2021-01022---stipulation.pdf\"><strong>Knell &#8211; Stipulation<\/strong><span class=\"visually-hidden\">(PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff: Kevin Cornwall, Senior Commission Counsel. The Respondents are represented by Robert A. Curtis of Foley Bezek Behle &amp; Curtis, LLP. James Knell owns the businesses identified as respondents in this matter. Through his businesses, Knell contributed over $40,000 to four campaign committees controlled by candidates running for the Santa Barbara City Council. Knell exceeded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5501,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[68],"class_list":["post-5516","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5517,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5516\/revisions\/5517"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}