A Chinese-owned company’s $1.3 million in contributions to pro-Jeb Bush super PAC Right to Rise — which resulted in a record fine by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for illegal foreign interference — wasn’t the only money the company funneled into U.S. elections. The $940,000 fine levied by the FEC is the largest financial penalty […]
Election Watchdog Hits Jeb Bush’s Super-PAC With Massive Fine for Taking Money From Chinese Nationals…
The Federal Election Commission has hit Right to Rise USA, the super-PAC that backed Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid, with a record fine for accepting a seven-figure donation from a company owned by Chinese nationals who were in business with Bush’s brother, Neil, according to FEC documents obtained by Mother Jones. It is illegal for […]
Ocasio-Cortez and Top Aide Run Outside Group Leading ‘War’ on Establishment Democrats, Documents Show…
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her top aide hold majority control over Justice Democrats, a left-wing PAC waging open war on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other establishment Democrats, according to corporate filings obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, obtained majority control of the […]
Whoopsie: AOC Chief of Staff Caught Using Sketchy PAC Activity for Dark Money Scheme…
Shocked, S.H.O.C.K.E.D,.. well, not really….. actually ‘predictable‘; I digress. Mr. Saikat Chakrabarti, the chief-of-staff for Ms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has been caught using sketchy financial PAC constructs to construct dark money schemes. Oh dear – Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of […]
FEC Still Refuses To Investigate Alleged $84 Million Clinton Campaign Money Laundering…
Tuesday evening the Committee to Defend the President (CDP) filed a motion in a D.C. federal court seeking to supplement the complaint it had filed against the Federal Election Committee (FEC) in April 2018. In its original complaint, the CDP alleged that the agency responsible for enforcing campaign-finance law failed to act on an administrative […]
Shedding Some Light on Dark Money Political Donors…
On Wednesday we added details to our FEC Itemizer database on nearly $763 million in contributions to the political nonprofit organizations — also known as 501(c)(4) groups — that have spent the most money on federal elections during the past eight years. The data is courtesy of Issue One, a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization that […]
Maxine Waters Hit with FEC Complaint After Daughter Rakes in $750,000 from Campaign Funds…
California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, 79, has been slapped with an FEC complaint after funneling $750,000 in campaign funds to her daughter since 2004 to manage a mailer program, as extensively detailed by the Free Beacon’s Joe Schoffstall. The scheme managed by Karen Waters has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from California politicians […]
Yet Another ‘Recycled’ Hard Drive: Former Lois Lerner Deputy Can’t Be Prosecuted for Fundraising for Democrats on the Job Because the FEC Destroyed the Evidence…
Republicans are investigating another Obama administration official who played politics on the job but escaped prosecution when the Federal Election Commission recycled her hard drive before evidence could be recovered. April J. Sands resigned her position as an FEC attorney in April 2014 after investigators confronted her with tweets she sent and a video interview […]
Australian Labor Party Fined More Than $24K for Illegal Contributions to the Bernie Sanders Campaign…
In February 2016, shortly after the New Hampshire first-in-the-nation presidential primary, a conservative activist group released videos purporting to show Australian youths working with primary winner Bernie Sanders’ campaign in New Hampshire and other states while they received monetary stipends. Those stipends, as well as their transportation costs, were paid for by the Australian Labor […]
Hillary Clinton Campaign, DNC Accused of ‘Corrupt’ Money Scheme in New FEC Complaint…
A new legal complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission alleges that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee used state chapters as strawmen to circumvent campaign donation limits and laundered the money back to her campaign. The Committee to Defend the President, a political action committee, filed its complaint with the FEC […]