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With Virginia Election Only Days Away, McAuliffe Hit with Scandal That Could Sink Him for Good
Western Journal ^ | 10/30/2021 | Kip Jones

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: ericstalwell; glennyoungkin; kipjones; mcauliffe; mcawful; scandal; terrymcauliffe; terrymcawful; virginia
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To: Signalman

I doubt it. where is the boom bombshell in title?


21 posted on 10/30/2021 1:55:44 PM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: Signalman

The Democrats are going to have to earn this one-it’s gonna take a lot more ballot dumps than usual!


22 posted on 10/30/2021 1:57:38 PM PDT by Spok
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To: Signalman

The fix is in. Car trunks will open with tens of thousands more votes for mcauful than he needs


23 posted on 10/30/2021 1:58:09 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: usconservative

They have figured that they need to find 350,000 “votes”


24 posted on 10/30/2021 1:58:26 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

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.


25 posted on 10/30/2021 1:58:26 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Signalman
This isn't enough?


26 posted on 10/30/2021 1:58:38 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Rocco DiPippo

Stealing is what they do and they will do it


27 posted on 10/30/2021 1:59:06 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Signalman

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.


28 posted on 10/30/2021 1:59:07 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Signalman

Just who is going to prosecute?


29 posted on 10/30/2021 1:59:20 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: laweeks

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.


30 posted on 10/30/2021 1:59:22 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Signalman

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.


31 posted on 10/30/2021 1:59:25 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Signalman

Rain or shine, I will be at my local voting station, bet.


32 posted on 10/30/2021 1:59:45 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Half_Retired

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.


33 posted on 10/30/2021 2:04:40 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Signalman
That $350,000 has already been put to use.

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

34 posted on 10/30/2021 2:05:36 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: TexasGurl24

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.


35 posted on 10/30/2021 2:06:00 PM PDT by boxlunch (10th Amendmt: nullification or Texit? PS We're in a hot war: globalists, CCP, media, Dems, RINOs)
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To: TexasGurl24; laweeks

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).


36 posted on 10/30/2021 2:06:14 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: TexasGurl24

Their poison is all over FR.


37 posted on 10/30/2021 2:11:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Signalman

Anyone else curious as to why this info is seeing the light of day...


38 posted on 10/30/2021 2:12:51 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Signalman

The vast majority of McAwful’s money is from out of state.
It’s probably all laundered money in some form or another.


39 posted on 10/30/2021 2:15:34 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Signalman

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.


40 posted on 10/30/2021 2:16:01 PM PDT by throwthebumsout
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