Months After a Campaign Ended, Unreported Spending Surfaced.

It's one thing, in the heat of a campaign, to overlook a taxi receipt buried in the back of a wallet. But how does an elected official who has run several six-figure campaigns in New York fail to include her campaign's largest bill on expense reports filed at the time of her last race? Eleven bills totaling $101,963 have come back to haunt Helen Sears, a thrice-elected councilwoman from Queens who was defeated in September by Daniel P. Dromm in a three-way Democratic primary. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]