Philadelphia's Board of Ethics concluded this week that Philadelphians for a Fair Future, a nonprofit that raised more than $2 million to help the Kenney Administration gain support for its controversial soda tax, violated the city's Lobbying Law, though the organization characterized its errors as unintentional mistakes.
Back in 2016, when Mayor Jim Kenney first floated the sugary beverage tax as a revenue generator in his inaugural year, PFF – a 501c4 – registered with the Ethics Board as a lobbying principal and filed its first quarterly report on July 29, 2016. Despite early declarations that it was committed to transparency, that first report contained multiple omissions, the Ethics Board said Thursday.
Its the latest in a series of ethical questions that arose regarding PFF and its support of the mayor's soda tax policy.
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