Thursday, April 8, 2010

Republican National committee Chair hatched scheme evading campaign finance rules to pump up fundraising totals


Accounts of financial deception at the Republican National Committee stretch from a scandal involving $2,000 spent at a bondage strip club to a possible illegal fundraising ploy to circumvent federal restrictions on campaign finance.
Back in 2009 RNC Chairman Michael Steele contrived a scheme with the Michigan Republican Party to quickly turn more than half a million dollars from Michigan donors intended for the RNC back over to the state party. This apparently a ruse devised to artificially increase the RNC's fundraising totals for 2009, according to a report from the Daily Caller.
Documentation by the Federal Election Commission verifies the donations to the RNC, as well as the money that came right back to the Michigan Republican Party.

A former official with the RNC said the motivation for such a deal was probably to allow individuals to donate more than the $10,000 federal limit, because Michigan state law allows unlimited campaign contributions for individuals.

1 comment:

  1. The Republicans destroy the US economy from 2000 to 2008, the RNC plots scams to raise money, and their constituents get their marching orders from Fox (the media outlet that hates middle-class Americans).

    Republicans do not want America to recover from this the greatest recession since the republican induced Great Depression from 1929 to 1941.

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