A Month of Dining With Shelly Brown
Shelly Brown, a top aide to Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati (R., Jefferson), has used a credit card issued by Scarnati’s campaign to charge thousands of dollars in dinners and lunches — many of them billed as “staff lunches” with other government employees at restaurants near the state Capitol.
In November 2016 alone, she spent $7,207.03 at restaurants and a country club. The charges are part of a cache of expenses by Scarnati’s campaign that are not listed in public reports.
Date
Restaurant
Spent
Billed as
Nov. 4
Flinchy’s Restaurant, Camp Hill
$187.41
Staff lunch meeting
Nov. 7
Mangia Qui, Harrisburg
$113.28
Nov. 8
TGI Friday's, Chadds Ford
$44.47
Lunch with “Becky & Kara”
Nov. 14
Pizza Grill, Lemoyne
$143.16
Office lunch with
Senator-elect Martin
Nov. 15
Mangia Qui, Harrisburg
$46.00
Meeting with Senator-
elect Laughlin
Nov. 17
Fenicci’s of Hershey, Hershey
$397.70
Senior staff Escape Room
lunch
Nov. 18
Hershey Golf Club, Hershey
$6,052.77
Nov. 23
McGrath’s Pub, Harrisburg
$222.24
Staff lunch
SOURCE: Analysis by The Caucus and Spotlight PA of campaign-finance records
JOHN DUCHNESKIE / Staff Artist
A Month of Dining
With Shelly Brown
Shelly Brown, a top aide to Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati (R., Jefferson), has used a credit card issued by Scarnati’s campaign to charge thousands of dollars in dinners and lunches — many of them billed as “staff lunches” with other government employees at restaurants near the state Capitol. In November 2016 alone, she spent $7,207.03 at restaurants and a country club. The charges are part of a cache of expenses by Scarnati’s campaign that are not listed in public reports.
Date
Restaurant
Spent
Nov. 4
Flinchy’s Restaurant, Camp Hill
$187.41
Billed as “Staff lunch meeting”
Nov. 7
Mangia Qui, Harrisburg
$113.28
Nov. 8
TGI Friday's, Chadds Ford
$44.47
Billed as “Lunch with
Becky & Kara”
Nov. 14
Pizza Grill, Lemoyne
$143.16
Billed as “Office lunch with
Senator-elect Martin”
Nov. 15
Mangia Qui, Harrisburg
$46.00
Billed as “Meeting with
Senator-elect Laughlin”
Nov. 17
Fenicci’s of Hershey, Hershey
$397.70
Billed as “Senior staff Escape
Room lunch”
Nov. 18
Hershey Golf Club, Hershey
$6,052.77
Nov. 23
McGrath’s Pub, Harrisburg
$222.24
Billed as “Staff lunch”
SOURCE: Analysis by The Caucus and Spotlight PA
of campaign-finance records
JOHN DUCHNESKIE / Staff Artist
