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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A complaint alleging criminal fraud in the 2011 and 2015 campaign finance reports of Wilkes-Barre Area School Board President Louis Elmy will be sent to the Luzerne County District Attorney&#8217;s Office so law enforcement could further investigate the claims.</p><p>Mike Butera, solicitor for the county board of elections, said he reached the decision Friday after following up on a complaint made to the elections office last week by city resident Carl Jones. Butera said Jones followed up his claims with supporting documentation but declined to discuss the specifics of the allegations.</p><p>&#8220;There are allegations of criminal fraud in his financial statements. That&#8217;s all I could say,&#8221; Butera said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not in position to determine whether there&#8217;s merit to them.&#8221;</p><p>Butera, however, acknowledged there were &#8220;definitely discrepancies&#8221; in Elmy&#8217;s reports and it will be up to law enforcement to decide whether they rise to the level of criminal intent or intent to defraud. The county elections office does not have the resources or jurisdiction to perform criminal investigations, he explained.</p><p>&#8220;I think that it warrants a follow up investigation,&#8221; Butera said.</p><p>Jones said Friday he believes Butera&#8217;s decision to forward the allegations speaks for itself.</p><p>&#8220;Until I&#8217;m proven wrong, I would assume that&#8217;s what he did to the best of my knowledge,&#8221; Jones said.</p><p>Reached Friday, Elmy denied any intentional wrongdoing and said he planned to cooperate with the investigation.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll just wait for the call,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I feel like I did nothing intentionally wrong.&#8221;</p><p>Elected in 2011 to a four-year term on the school board, Elmy, 50, a Luzerne County Corrections officer, won his second term as school board president on Dec. 2. He did not seek re-election, instead opting to run for a seat vacated by mayor-elect Tony George in City Council&#8217;s District B.</p><p>Republican Tony Brooks out-polled the Democrat in Tuesday&#8217;s general election by a more than 2-to-1 margin, according to unofficial results.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>Elmy: &#8216;I&#8217;ll just wait for the call&#8217;</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Joe Dolinsky</p><p>jdolinsky@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Joe Dolinsky at 570-991-6110 or on Twitter @JoeDolinskyTL</p></shirttailMeta></div>

DA to investigate Wilkes-Barre School Board President Louis Elmy over alleged campaign finance fraud