Posted on 12/12/2015 7:54:14 AM PST by jimbo123
Two companies that gave $200,000 to a pro-Jeb Bush super PAC are obscuring the identities of the real donors, a Washington watchdog group alleges in a complaint it filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission.
The complaint highlights how super political action committees - critical helpers for most of the 2016 presidential candidates - are not always as transparent as voters may think. Super PACs regularly file information about their donors to the FEC. But sometimes those donors are mysterious companies.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a political spending watchdog known as CREW, alleges that two limited-liability companies, or LLCs, are "straw donors" meant to conceal the true sources of the money.
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The new complaint concerns donations made to Right to Rise, a super PAC backing Bush, the former Florida governor who is seeking the Republican nomination. The group raised a record $103 million in the first six months of the year and had dozens of donors - most of them individuals - that made contributions of $100,000 or more each.
But among the donors were a limited-liability company called TH Holdings in New York City, which gave money Feb. 26, and Heather Oaks LLC in Birmingham, Alabama, which gave on March 9.
Fundraising records show neither LLC had ever made another political contribution. State records show that TH Holdings formed in New York in 2010 and Heather Oaks in Delaware this year, just a few days before its donation.
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I didn’t think there were any constraints on PACs, regarding either identity or contribution amounts, as long as they don’t coordinate with the candidate or his campaign.
gee... anyone looking into Hitlerly’s fundraising?
especially from foreign governments?
Hell...she probably is getting a kick back on
isis oi1 !
LLC’s are not allowed to contribute to this type of PAC.
Interesting!
Thanks!
Boy, I bet you they wish they had their money back!
Right to Rise will have to reveal the identity of those straw donors and revise their FEC filing.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/a-secret-donor-revealed/
Makes me wonder who is funding Bush’s campaign.
Makes me wonder what an idiot the person or group backing him must be.
Is the name of Yeb’s PAC Right To Rise To Five Percent”?
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