Sentences with phrase «kind illegal contributions»
More likely, the company was a vehicle for secretly funneling massive, under - the - table, in - kind illegal contributions to its candidates; only under the pressure of a lawsuit did the WFP last month agree to a measure of reform.
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According to Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission who also appeared on 60 Minutes, the money may very well constitute «a coordinated, illegal, «in - kind» contribution by Cohen for the purpose of influencing the election.»
Common Cause, the left - leaning watchdog group, strongly believes that the McDougal payment was not a legitimate press function, and has filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against both Trump and American Media Inc. over the payment, calling it «an illegal corporate in - kind contribution to the 2016 Trump campaign.»
Cohen said he told the Federal Election Commission the same thing after the nonprofit government accountability group Common Cause filed a complaint alleging that the payment was an illegal «in kind» political contribution.
January 22, 2018: The campaign finance and anti-corruption watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice asking them to «determine whether the payment was made by the Trump Organization or some other corporation or individual, which would additionally make it an illegal in - kind contribution to the campaign.»
In its complaints, the group said a $ 150,000 payment in August 2016 from the parent company of the National Enquirer to Karen McDougal was intended to «buy and bury» the story of her affair with Trump and amounted to an illegal, in - kind contribution to Trump's presidential campaign.
The payment was made in coordination with the Trump campaign and constituted an illegal and unreported in - kind campaign contribution, according to the two complaints.
At least two complaints to the Federal Election Commission allege that the money was meant to influence the presidential election and therefore amounted to an illegal in - kind contribution to the Trump campaign.
The government watchdog group Common Cause has argued that the payment was made to influence the 2016 presidential election and therefore it was an illegal in - kind contribution to Mr Trump's campaign that was never publicly disclosed.
The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), passed by Congress in the early 1970s, had made it a federal offense for PACs to accept money from corporations, and Viacom — the corporate owner of Colbert's network — feared that it would face accusations of making illegal in - kind contributions should ColbertPAC become a fully functioning money - raising PAC.
Former Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm's campaign was hit with a FEC complaint that claims the candidate received an illegal in - kind contribution by getting free services from Michael Caputo, Grimm's Buffalo - based communications strategist.
There also appears to be illegal in - kind corporate contributions from Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that runs Achievement First Bridgeport.
If the classrooms are in the Achievement First — Bridgeport School then it may very well be an illegal in - kind contribution of space.