Federal complaint says MAGA PAC, lawyer and GOP firm violated campaign finance laws to secretly settle lawsuit
Source: Law & Crime
May 11th, 2024, 2:03 pm
Former President Donald Trump’s primary leadership PAC violated federal campaign finance law in a way “not unfamiliar” to the ex-president and now-presumptive GOP presidential nominee, according to a complaint filed by a nonpartisan public interest watchdog.
On Friday, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington submitted a hard-charging nine-page complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging the Make America Great Again PAC tried to hide settlement payments in a sexual harassment, gender and pregnancy discrimination lawsuit by routing those payments through a third party or parties in violation of mandatory disclosure laws.
The complaint specifically likens the alleged “use of pass-throughs to hide the true purpose of payments” to the ongoing criminal woes Trump is facing on a personal level in New York City. Trump is currently on trial in Manhattan over hush money his longtime fixer Michael Cohen paid adult content creator Stormy Daniels in October 2016. According to the complaint, Arlene J. “AJ” Delgado, a former Trump 2016 campaign and White House transition staffer, is the source of the claim — which technically was made against Trump’s former presidential campaign arms.
Those campaign arms later legally shifted to becoming the presently constituted leadership PAC. Delgado “recently confirmed the offer to utilize such a scheme to evade reporting” by way of a “declaration made under oath in connection with her pregnancy discrimination lawsuit,” the filing says. “Make America Great Again PAC falsely attributed payments to conduits utilized solely to prevent disclosure of the true recipient and purpose of its disbursements,” the filing reads.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/illegal-activity-carried-out-by-donald-trumps-campaign-federal-complaint-says-maga-pac-lawyer-and-gop-firm-violated-campaign-finance-laws-to-secretly-settle-lawsuit/
Full headline: ‘Illegal activity carried out by Donald Trump’s campaign’: Federal complaint says MAGA PAC, lawyer and GOP firm violated campaign finance laws to secretly settle lawsuit
Link to CREW COMPLAINT (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24658635-crew-trump-pass-through
Link to CREW COMPLAINT (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24658635/crew-trump-pass-through.pdf
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