Thiel-Backed PAC May Have Made Illegal Payments to Bannon Company

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Thiel-Backed PAC May Have Made Illegal Payments to Bannon Company

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/09/thiel-backed-pac-may-have-made-illegal-payments-bannon-company.html

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New Federal Elections Commission filings show that a pro-Trump super PAC funded in part by Peter Thiel paid more than $134,000 to a company helmed by Steve Bannon in the final weeks of the presidential campaign—a set-up the watchdog group Campaign Legal Center says may have been illegal.

The super PAC, called Make America Number 1, is bankrolled largely by Robert Mercer, a New York hedge-fund billionaire with a very low public profile. His daughter Rebekah has quickly become one of the conservative movement’s most powerful financial backers; she’s on the board of the Heritage Foundation and the Manhattan Institute, and helps fund a host of right-wing media projects. She is also a close and longtime associate of Bannon, who is now one of Trump’s top White House advisers.

Mercer is also one of the 16 members of the Trump transition team’s executive committee. And a GOP fundraising source told Politico that it “would be difficult to overstate Rebekah’s influence in Trump world right now.”

The Daily Beast reported in November that Glittering Steel, a film company with virtually no online presence, is essentially “a front for Bannon.” We also reported that watchdogs say the payments the Make America Number 1 super PAC made to Bannon’s group could have violated campaign-finance rules, potentially by paying Bannon’s salary so the campaign wouldn’t have to. The new filings show that the super PAC was paying Bannon’s company all the way up through Election Day.


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[DonCoquixote]

1. a note to Thiel (and for that matter, Milo Yano)

aka the "gay friends" the alt right props up whenever they say they are not bigots)

You have money, but you cannot hide from a bunch of fascists who hate you, and will demand more and more red meat. One day, Bannon will call for your heads, and there will be no one top save you, nowhere to hold you. These folks are playing for the planet, not just a mere nation.