Perjury counts detail Martinez's 63-minute Fort Lauderdale trip and evasive oath testimony

The accusation document delivered to Anchorage's Municipal Clerk on July 1 alleges three perjury counts under Alaska criminal statute against Assembly Member George Martinez, along with two additional counts alleging he knowingly certified false financial disclosure reports — going well beyond the civil campaign-finance penalties the Alaska Public Offices Commission imposed in its June 11 final order.

The document, filed by Assembly Members Jared Goecker and Donald Handeland, reconstructs the Fort Lauderdale trip in precise timestamps. It alleges Martinez departed Anchorage at 2:20 a.m. on December 30, 2025, landed in Fort Lauderdale at 5:40 p.m., and departed again at 6:43 p.m., spending 63 minutes on the ground. He landed back in Anchorage at 2:39 a.m. on December 31, the final day of the airline status-qualification year. The 8,000-mile round trip cost $1,255.70 in campaign funds.

The day after booking the ticket, the document alleges, Martinez contributed $1,000 in campaign funds to Chooose Inc. and received 1,500 status points credited to his personal Alaska Airlines/Atmos Rewards account. He holds Titanium status for 2026, the program's highest annual tier, which requires 135,000 miles accrued in a single calendar year.

At the June 3 APOC hearing, Martinez testified under oath that the trip was for campaign strategic planning and that airline status benefits "were unknown at the time of the transaction." He told the commission "the itinerary was designed to give me approximately 20 hours of uninterrupted planning time." APOC found that testimony "formulaic and evasive," in the words of Goecker's accusation document. Three of the five perjury counts under AS 11.56.200 relate to that sworn APOC testimony; the remaining two allege that Martinez knowingly certified false financial disclosure reports — filed in January and March 2026 — that omitted his ownership interest in Consoach, LLC.