Groups claim Clinton campaign broke campaign laws over Fusion GPS and Steele funding – IOTW Report

Groups claim Clinton campaign broke campaign laws over Fusion GPS and Steele funding

WaEx:

Two watchdog groups filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission alleging the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee broke campaign laws by filing reports meant to conceal their hiring of the opposition research firm Fusion GPS and British ex-spy Christopher Steele.

And one has now filed a lawsuit in federal court.

The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit, filed its complaint with the FEC in 2017, alleging that Clinton and the DNC “failed to accurately disclose the purpose and recipient of payments for the dossier of research alleging connections between then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia, effectively hiding these payments from public scrutiny, contrary to the requirements of federal law.”

The Coolidge Reagan Foundation, a conservative nonprofit, filed its complaint with the FEC a year later against Clinton, the DNC, Steele, and the Perkins Coie law firm, which represented Clinton and the DNC in 2016 and was paid $12 million in 2016-2017. Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS, which then hired Steele.

The foundation alleged the Clinton campaign “conspired” with foreign nationals by hiring Steele, who says he gathered information from sources close to the Kremlin. The FBI used Steele’s unverified dossier in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications to surveil Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

The foundation filed its lawsuit in D.C. District Court in May, hoping a judge will force the FEC to rule on its complaint.
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13 Comments on Groups claim Clinton campaign broke campaign laws over Fusion GPS and Steele funding

  1. And the federal election commission was sleeping during her campaign?
    They were aware of what she was doing and chose not to speak up, she wasn’t republican!

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  2. More “stuff” bubbling up to the surface of Hillary’s big, simmering, swirling septic tank of Corruption that no one would be aware of had the old Bitch “won” the election!

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  3. Does anyone believe, after all the corruption she’s committed, that campaign finance violations will take her down? Al Capone must be spinning in his grave.

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  4. Here’s hoping something comes of this. There is going to be a big order for several more cases of Chardonnay at President Elect Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Chappahua Hideout if this gets a real hearing.

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  5. She’ll have long died of natural causes before she ever faces justice in this world. The same goes for her husband. Two of the vilest scum ever to hold public office.

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  6. The FEC is a toothless tiger, members appointed by both parties to cover their “irregularities” that can be covered by amending the paperwork after candidates are caught in their illegal practice.
    It does give the public the perception that they enforce the rules and we have elections free from corruption….However, reality is the opposite.

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  7. …I’ve lost count of the laws Hillary has flagrantly violated, what’s one more.

    …the only way anything will ever come of ANY of it, is with a rope and a lamp post after the Second Civil War…

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  8. Of course they broke the law passing this through Perkins Coie.

    Because who would violate the sacrosanct attorney-client privilege to find out? Oh yea, the people who raided Cohen’s office.

    Justice delayed is Justice denied because if they win in 2020 then nothing will ever come of their treason.

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