{"id":5582,"date":"2026-10-13T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/?page_id=5582"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:18:44","slug":"item-03","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/2026-10\/item-03\/","title":{"rendered":"3. In the Matter of Michael Gatto and Joshua Meister; FPPC Case No. 20\/945."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff: Neal Bucknell, Senior Commission Counsel and Kristin Hamilton, Special Investigator. Respondent Meister is represented by Richard Davis of Bowse Davis Huffine Chung &amp; Hull LLP. In this matter, Gatto and Meister formed an independent expenditure committee, but failed to timely file a 24-Hour Report and a semiannual statement, in violation of Government Code Sections 84200 and 84204 (1 count). Gatto and Meister failed to include proper advertisement disclosure on a mailer, in violation of Government Code Sections 84502, 84504.2, and 84506.5 (1 count). <strong>Total Proposed Penalty: $7,500.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fppc.ca.gov\/siteassets\/documents\/enforcement_div\/stipulations\/2026\/october\/michael-gatto-and-joshua-meister-fppc-case-no.-2020-00945---stipulation.pdf\"><strong>Gatto and Meister &#8211; Stipulation<\/strong><span class=\"visually-hidden\">(PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff: Neal Bucknell, Senior Commission Counsel and Kristin Hamilton, Special Investigator. Respondent Meister is represented by Richard Davis of Bowse Davis Huffine Chung &amp; Hull LLP. In this matter, Gatto and Meister formed an independent expenditure committee, but failed to timely file a 24-Hour Report and a semiannual statement, in violation of Government Code Sections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5574,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[70],"class_list":["post-5582","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5582","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=5582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5583,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5582\/revisions\/5583"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}