Posted on 11/07/2016 3:57:57 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
Bundlers for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign joined Clinton ally and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe in donating to the state senate campaign of Jill McCabe.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on donations from Common Good VA, McAuliffe’s political action committee, to McCabe’s Virginia state senate campaign in 2015. McCabe is the wife of Andrew McCabe, the FBI deputy director who helped in the investigation into Clinton’s email practices.
McAuliffe contributed $467,500 to McCabe’s campaign through his PAC, making her the third-largest recipient of contributions from McAuliffe in 2015. The Virginia Democratic Party provided an additional $207,788 to McCabe in the form of mailers, the Wall Street Journal noted.
However, McAuliffe was not the only Clinton backer to contribute to McCabe’s campaign. Four top bundlers for Clinton-related efforts combined to give McCabe more than $130,000.
Fredrick D. Schaufeld, an investment banker and venture capitalist, sits on Hillary Clinton’s National Finance Committee along with his wife, Karen. Individuals who raise or contribute at least $100,000 for Hillary for America, the Hillary Victory Fund, the Hillary Action Fund, or a combination of those three entities earn a spot on the committee.
Schaufeld contributed $65,332 to McCabe’s campaign, public records shows. A total of $55,000 went to McCabe between June and late October 2015—the same time that Common Good VA flooded McCabe’s campaign with nearly a half million in contributions.
Schaufeld was the fourth largest donor to McCabe’s campaign behind only McAuliffe’s PAC, the Democratic Party of Virginia, and Planned Parenthood’s Virginia affiliate. McCabe was the top recipient of campaign cash from Schaufeld last year.
Karen Schaufeld, Fredrick’s wife, contributed $10,849 to McCabe in October.
Sonjia Smith, who sits on Hillary Clinton’s National Finance Committee alongside her husband Michael Bills, donated $45,000 to McCabe’s campaign. Smith was the fifth largest donor to McCabe, right behind Fredrick Shaufeld.
Smith’s husband, Bills, donated $15,000 to McCabe in August 2015.
In all, McCabe raised $1.6 million for her unsuccessful Virginia state senate race.
McAuliffe’s PAC, the Virginia Democratic Party, and donors who have bundled at least six figures for Clinton combined to provide $881,469 in funding to McCabe last year, or half of the amount she raised during her race.
A spokesman for McAuliffe told the Wall Street Journal the governor supported McCabe’s campaign because he thought she would make a good state senator and that the assumption he donated in order to influence her husband’s behavior at the FBI was “ridiculous.”
“Any insinuation that his support was tied to anything other than his desire to elect candidates who would help pass his agenda is ridiculous,” the spokesman said.
None of the Clinton bundlers immediately responded to requests for comment.
too much loose cash rolling around the commonwealth
I’ll be a dollar to a donut that everyone got a tax deduction.....
If she wins, the movement to reduce federal power over the states will get a huge boost.
The FBI sells the best coverup money can buy.
ping
Total corruption corrupts totally.
Just how much of these “campaign contributions” actually went to paying for her campaign and how much went into the family bank account? Has anybody audited her campaign to see how much she actipuall spent? I read a couple weeks ago that she wasn’t a “real” candidate and she had zero chance of winning, so all of these were purely sham donations, i.e., payoffs to her husband.
I wonder how President Trump will deal with this corruption. The first problem is how to preserve evidence between Wednesday and Inauguration Day. Who would his AG appoint as a special prosecutor? How many are needed?
I’m guessing that there will be enormous numbers of RAID system, hard disk and tape backup systems failures during that period.
It will be the Rooskies who did it.
She pulled in $1.67 million. That is more than the highest spending campaign for the 2016 cycle by about $300K. She outspent the Republican she lost to almost 2:1. The the current cycle, the average campaign is running about $200K.
But here's the most interesting thing to me: her total campaign contributions by those giving under $100 is just 4.3%. That sounds an awful lot like the donation profile of Clinton stooge, doesn't it? What could possibly be so interesting about a state Senate race that more than 95% of your contributions would come from wealthy people? Oh, and by the way, McAuliffe lost that district by 5%, so what exactly did he/they think they were buying? Just wondering...
You’all never see a smoking gun video showing the quid pro quo deal being struck, but everyone knows how the Washington game is played. You buy influence by sending vast some of money even if it isn’t requested, so that the recipient is co-opted. There are High Crimes being perpetrated by the corrupt ruling class. The entire swap needs to be drained. The legislators, bureaucracy and the judiciary.
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