Do you think the RNC will do anything?
Do you think the RNC will do anything?
No. The RNC is a rather neutered organization. Trump might make some noise about this and could say he will investigate it, but again, she is “too big to jail.”
This appears to be a blatant violation of campaign finance laws and money laundering. It would be equivalent to me donating 100k to the RNC, lumping them for state, local, and national campaigns to get around the donation limits, either knowing or not knowing that they have a scheme to give 99k of it to Trump. It is a scheme that allows me to donate far more to Trump as an individual than the law allows. These might be the emails Assange references?
In this instance it would meet the definition of money laundering, because it is a scheme designed to violate the legal reporting requirements and the law governing individual donations to a single candidate -
18 U.S. Code § 1956 - Laundering of monetary instruments
(a)
(1) Whoever, knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, conducts or attempts to conduct such a financial transaction which in fact involves the proceeds of specified unlawful activity—
(A)
(i) with the intent to promote the carrying on of specified unlawful activity; or
(ii) with intent to engage in conduct constituting a violation of section 7201 or 7206 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; or
(B) knowing that the transaction is designed in whole or in part—
(i) to conceal or disguise the nature, the location, the source, the ownership, or the control of the proceeds of specified unlawful activity; or
(ii) to avoid a transaction reporting requirement under State or Federal law,
shall be sentenced to a fine of not more than $500,000 or twice the value of the property involved in the transaction, whichever is greater, or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both. For purposes of this paragraph, a financial transaction shall be considered to be one involving the proceeds of specified unlawful activity if it is part of a set of parallel or dependent transactions, any one of which involves the proceeds of specified unlawful activity, and all of which are part of a single plan or arrangement.
This is another slap in the face of Bernie and his supporters, but we already know the favoritism existed in the DNC for Hillary. It would not surprise me if the Clinton Foundation was involved in this as well.
In short, you can read this stuff yourself and make up your own mind, but I doubt anything will happen. The email case was pretty darned clear and we saw the results (to include the highly unusual non-disclosure agreement the agents and attorneys had to sign). I am curious how they selected the agents to investigate this as well - that might be telling (i.e. - nobody eligible to retire and spill the beans?).
Some banks are too big to fail. Some people are too big to jail. Welcome to 1984 comrades. Objectively - compare the email investigation and scandal to the Scooter Libby - Valarie Plame fiasco and look at the results.
From wiki - In October 2005, Libby was indicted by a federal grand jury concerning the investigation of the leak of the covert identity of Central Intelligence Agency officer Valerie Plame Wilson.[4][5][6] Plame’s position at the CIA was considered classified information.[4] Libby was indicted on five counts relating to the Plame affair: Two counts of perjury, two counts of making false statements to federal investigators, and one count of obstruction of justice. Libby resigned all three government positions immediately after the indictment was announced.[7]
In the subsequent federal trial, United States v. Libby, the jury convicted Libby on four of the five counts in the indictment (one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury, and one count of making false statements) and acquitted on the second count of making false statements