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The Washington ComPost article is equally vague yet revealing of total corruption.

For example there is this line from the compost:

A Democratic finance vice chair, for example, said organizers would have to contribute $ 100,000 in return for Gore's appearance at a Buddhist temple in Los Angeles.

This is hugely illegal. Why no name? Why not call it what it is, bribery, graft...

Only two major papers have done an article on this, the NY Times and ComPost.

Compost reports as well wondeful gems of logic on the FEC's part such as these:

...fines would have been significantly higher except that some of the corporations have folded and others were dummy operations, with no assets, set up as conduits for money from China, Venezuela, Canada and other countries.

...the FEC said it decided to drop cases against contributors of more than $ 3 million in illegal DNC contributions because the respondents either are "out of the country and beyond our reach, or corporations that are defunct."

In other words set up fake comapnies for your Demeocrat Money Laundering schemes and you get a pass.

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