mr. roy herrera who served as the treasurer for both committees, is also named, but only in his capacitys treasurer for the committees and bears no personal liability in this matter. the counts in this matter are straightforward, and the law is very clear. the law imposes a $500 contribution limit for candidate committees, and any payments to a candidate committee are presumed to be contributions, unless the committees can show that the contributor received full and adequate consideration. no such consideration. excuse me. no such contribution limit exists for ballot measure committees. here, the investigation revealed that the ballot measure committee made a series of payments to the mayoral committee, but did not receive full and adequate consideration for certain payments that was made to the mayoral committee. therefore, those payments that were over the $500 limit were illegal. contributions to the mayoral committee. the investigation determined the series of prohibited contributions to be over $93,000. this amount excludes the payments that were refunded as described under counts o