Politico Exposes Hillary Clinton Campaign ‘MONEY-LAUNDERING’ Scheme

[Segami]

PRESS RELEASE


Politico Exposes Clinton Campaign ‘Money-Laundering’ Scheme



MAY 2ND, 2016





BURLINGTON, Vt. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, on Monday criticized a Hillary Clinton campaign fundraising scheme that state party leaders told Politico has been used as a self-serving “money-laundering” conduit.

Despite Clinton’s pledges to rebuild state parties, Politico found that less than 1 percent of the $61 million raised by the Victory Fund has stayed in the state parties’ coffers.

“Secretary Clinton is looting funds meant for the state parties to skirt fundraising limits on her presidential campaign,” Weaver said. “We think the Clinton campaign should let the state parties keep their fair share of the cash.”

Sanders’ and Clinton’s primary campaigns both raised about $26 million in April, but Politico documented how the Hillary Victory Fund, a supposedly joint fundraising committee, has been exploited to inflate her presidential primary campaign.

“Secretary Clinton has exploited the rules in ways that let her high-dollar donors like Alice Walton of Wal-Mart fame and the actor George Clooney and his super-rich Hollywood friends skirt legal limits on campaign contributions,” Weaver added. “If Secretary Clinton can’t raise the funds needed to run in a competitive primary without resorting to laundering, how will she compete against Donald Trump in a general election?”

The Sanders campaign first raised questions about the arrangement in an April 18 letter from Brad Deutsch, the attorney for Sanders’ campaign, to U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the DNC.

“Hillary Clinton says that campaign finance reform is one of the most important issues facing our country but her campaign’s use of the Victory Fund to essentially launder money proves otherwise,” Weaver said. “You cannot exploit a broken campaign finance system one day and vow to get big money out of politics the next.”

Sanders last month raised money for three progressive Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives. Unlike the Hillary Victory Fund, every dollar went directly to helping the candidates. The senator has also raised significant sums for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.





https://berniesanders.com/press-release/politico-exposes-clinton-campaign-money-laundering-scheme/

[Segami]

1. "...Secretary Clinton is looting funds..

"...meant for the state parties to skirt fundraising limits on her presidential campaign. We think the Clinton campaign should let the state parties keep their fair share of the cash....”

- Jeff Weaver

[NurseJackie]

2. Oh, lordy! I'm feeling light-headed! Someone grab my smelling salts!

[NWCorona]

3. Did you catch the vapors? nt

[frylock]

11. Unqualified.

That was a real vapor-inducing moment, wasn't it?

[MattP]

4. So who is in trouble with the F.E.C. again

Has Bernie filed another extension? He's good at that

[obamanut2012]

18. yup, deflection

[wyldwolf]

5. OH! What you MEAN is 'Politico covers BERNIE Campaign WHINING about Hillary.'

[JudyM]

6. Because law and ethics don't matter.

[wyldwolf]

7. 1. Irrelevant to the OP's spin of the article. 2. What laws have been broken?

[JudyM]

9. The spirit of campaign finance law. You seriously do not see that?

[wyldwolf]

12. "the spirit" of it? LOL

[JudyM]

14. You laugh... How pathetic that you don't see the harm to our democracy.

[wyldwolf]

16. viva la revolucion!

[JudyM]

19. How very predictably vacuous. When you are unable to discuss substance, that's what's left.

[wyldwolf]

21. viva la revolucion!

[obamanut2012]

17. yup

[JudyM]

8. Bit by bit the stink of her always-corrupt MO will get through to some of her supporters.

The ones who care about legality, ethics and morality, at least.

Thanks for posting, Segami. One of these days it will stop making me hurt that this is how she operates.

[Segami]

10. So many here have purchased season's tickets to the rolling Clinton Theater....

A grifter's three-card-monte vaudeville act.......

[AzDar]

13. Slimy.

[Gregorian]

15. Hillary not being moral? What's new.

So she's cheating her own down ticket candidates for her own gain? I'm shocked.

Actually, nothing shocks us anymore. She's crooked, establishment, and will be the last of them to "win", if she manages.

[bettyellen]

20. The money will help the nominee in November as well as downtickets and I am thrilled it will

Here is what is edited out of SBS's posting of the article:

"A Clinton campaign aide refuted some of Politico's report Monday, arguing that $4.5 million has already been transferred to state parties and that an additional $9 million "will be distributed over the coming months as state parties ramp up for the general election."
They also said the transfers between state parties and DNC are to pay for campaigns that "will coordinate with local, state and federal Democratic campaigns to work to elect progressives across the country in November." Those coordinated campaigns will also help Clinton, should she be the nominee.

"Funds raised through the Hillary Victory Fund are now being used to fund and staff organizing programs in Ohio, Virginia, Florida and states across the country that will register voters, recruit volunteers and organize Democrats to turn out and support candidates up and down the ballot," said Josh Schwerin, a Clinton spokesman."


http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/02/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-fundraising/

[Joob]

22. Okay what's the rebuttal to this evidence? They just Dismissing it? Anyone care enough about their

candidate to disprove this? Okay, eh. Is this Bernie just being Bernie, he's losing it. That's the response. Heh. Maybe, he needs to tone it down again. People might hear the corruption. Hah, what? I don't get a jab? Disprove this. How about that.


Show me how wrong this is with evidence. No? okay.. But fair warning, just makes us want to dig deeper.

[leftynyc]

23. Before you hurt yourself

by patting yourself on the back, you may want to check out the post right before yours. That way you wont embarrass yourself.