Posted on 10/30/2021 1:40:45 PM PDT by Signalman
An election watchdog group is asking for an investigation into Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe over what it says are serious campaign finance violations.
The Washington Free Beacon reported that the National Legal and Policy Center has asked the Federal Election Commission to “promptly” look into whether McAuliffe violated federal law when he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a US. subsidiary of a foreign-owned company.
The Democrat in July reportedly received $350,000 from a New Jersey company called LycaTel, a subsidiary of an international corporation based in the U.K.
LycaTel is owned by a Sri Lankan and British national named Allirajah Subaskaran.
“Terry McAuliffe has a history of accepting foreign contributions. The FEC must fully investigate these serious charges that he accepted $350,000 in illegal foreign contributions for his current campaign,” NLPC lawyer Paul Kamenar said.
While a U.S.-based subsidiary can donate money to candidates, concerns arise when an international parent company could benefit from the election of a particular candidate.
“This is effectively a really easy way to launder foreign money into the U.S. political process and to avoid the FEC prohibition on foreign nationals making contributions in U.S. elections,” said Ben Freeman, director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Polic
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I doubt it. where is the boom bombshell in title?
The Democrats are going to have to earn this one-it’s gonna take a lot more ballot dumps than usual!
The fix is in. Car trunks will open with tens of thousands more votes for mcauful than he needs
They have figured that they need to find 350,000 “votes”
If you don’t vote, then you have absolutely no right to say anything about the system or complain about how things are.
You don’t even believe the trash that you spew here.
I have an open bet about 2022, and so far, only one of you cowards has taken me up on it.
Stealing is what they do and they will do it
No such Scandal, or implication of same will prevent McAuliffe from winning the election. It may result in some prosecution or a fine 20 months down the line, but it will never stop him from winning the election if that is what the immediate future holds.
Just who is going to prosecute?
You are a coward. Own it. That’s the real world.
Anyone who doesn’t vote spits on the framers and the Constitution and has zero moral authority to complain about how things are.
Most voters don’t give a rip about this kind of politics-as-usual thing, no matter how blatantly corrupt. If TM loses it’ll be due to his un-American statements on education and his party’s no-holds-barred intentional destruction of the country, and his losing margin will be too large for even the Rat cheating machine to overcome.
Rain or shine, I will be at my local voting station, bet.
I agree, early voting is a bad idea, but one that the GOP has embraced.
I am voting on election day, as I always do.
If he wins because of it, it won't matter that he later apologizes and gives it back.
That's just how the Democrats roll.
-PJ
oh my gosh thank you. I just looked up this troll’s join date assuming he was assigned to jump on here and spread doom and despair. Despicable and cowardly. A fairly long timer but I’ve never heard of him.
Anyone who says (perhaps not literally) that they will not vote again is either a pessimist or a realist. In either case, that person should be reasoned with, not insulted. And that’s especially true if that person is obviously no troll (been on FR for many years).
Their poison is all over FR.
Anyone else curious as to why this info is seeing the light of day...
The vast majority of McAwful’s money is from out of state.
It’s probably all laundered money in some form or another.
TBH, few voters are going to be swayed by violation of campaign finance rules. People may complain about the influence of foreign money in elections, but only when it involves candidates of the opposing party.
These violations are rarely taking seriously and, in the worst-case situation, involves the forfeiting of the money and a small fine. Hell, the Clintons and Bidens got filthy rich off of foreign money and no action was ever taken against them.
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