Christmas Came Early! There's FINALLY an FEC Complaint about Hillary Victory Fund!
Here's the filing (pdf): https://www.committeetodefendthepresident.com/documents/FEC_Complaint/20...
Hillary Clinton campaign, DNC accused of 'corrupt' money scheme in new FEC complaint
Did Clinton break the law with 'takeover' of DNC?
One lawyer says the deal between the Clinton campaign and the DNC in August of 2015 - which essentially turned over control of the DNC to the Clinton campaign - was in violation of federal campaign finance law. #Tucker
The Committee to Defend the President, a political action committee, filed its complaint with the FEC on Monday with the allegations that the Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) solicited cash from big-name donors, including Calvin Klein and “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane -- money that was allegedly sent through state chapters and back to the DNC before ending up with the Clinton campaign.
Officials with the committee said their filing was spurred by their own analysis of FEC reports, where they said they discovered the HVF either never transferred the money to state chapters and back to the DNC, or did so without the state chapters having actual control.
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In its complaint, the CDP alleges that about $84 million was funneled illegally from the DNC through state party chapters and back into the war chest of the Clinton campaign. “Based on publicly available FEC records, repeatedly throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, HVF would purportedly transfer funds to its constituent political committees, which included between 34 and 40 state parties,” reads a passage from a copy of the complaint reviewed by Fox News. “On the very same day each of these transfers supposedly occurred, or occasionally the very next day, every single one of those state parties purportedly contributed all of those funds to the DNC.”
My quibble with the above para is only that HVF would have said the money was transferred, which they will claim that it was fully lawful to make unlimited transfers of all HVF funds between the signers of HVF according to their read of McCutcheon v. FEC.
According to CDP counsel Dan Backer:
“It’s not entirely clear if they transferred the money to the state parties to begin with, and if they never had control of the money, it’s not a contribution. It’s an earmark. If the money is in control of the candidate, then it is a contribution to them.”
Here's what I know about that - they DID transfer money into accounts which were in the names of the state parties. But all those accounts were in the same bank as other HVF funds, and all the transfers were done by a Hillary For America staffer who was the treasurer of HVF, so he may have a point. The state parties, themselves, were only given a tiny sliver of the money which came through those accounts.
Get this: If I'm reading the Fox article correctly, this Backer guy is the same attorney who originally filed Shaun McCutcheon's case against the FEC. Do other people read that this way?
The article quotes Brazile's book about this:
“Individuals who had maxed out their $2,700 contribution limit to the campaign could write an additional check for $353,400 to the Hillary Victory Fund—that figure represented $10,000 to each of the 32 states’ parties who were part of the Victory Fund agreement—$320,000—and $33,400 to the DNC...” The money would be deposited in the states first, and transferred to the DNC shortly after that. Money in the battleground states usually stayed in that state, but all the other states funneled that money directly to the DNC, which quickly transferred the money to [Clinton campaign headquarters in] Brooklyn.”
What y'all already know about the funds is that the contract HFA had with the DNC had a secret add-on which said Clinton would pay off DNC debt in exchange for being able to make new hire decisions for the DNC and to approve all material released on all Dem candidates (#NotRiggedMyAss), and that in prior election years, Joint Fundraising Agreements were only entered into AFTER there was a nominee. HVF contracts were signed in August of 2015 by the CEOs of the state parties, they were never on the docket of the State Democratic Executive Committees who theoretically run the state parties.
And in case anyone ever tells you 'Bernie had one too'? Well, not really. If you look at the FEC filing, the person listed as treasurer is a DNC staffer. The DNC created an account for him and threw $1000 in to open the account, but Bernie was running a people-powered campaign and IF he ever signed a contract, he clearly never had any use for this sort of vehicle.
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Lessee. Maybe there's another source besides Fox
so I don't have to give them a click?
Search of News.Google yielded Washington Beacon. Nah.
Thanks for the post though, interesting, as this [edit: Victory Fund shenanigans] was brought up last year.
Some wished aloud at the time that Sanders campaign would file with the FEC. Didn't happen AFAIK.
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good find. n/t
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Here's one
https://www.americanewshub.com/2017/12/20/84-million-new-fec-complaint-c...
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Thanks. Just was curious if any other outlet had
That link you found is all based on the work by Fox, which I have no real reason to doubt .
Wonder if The Intercept or someone else will cover this......
Again, thanks for the essay.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Wow, I somehow missed that direct link to the filing
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
@divineorder it was added later -
I can't really report publicly on my reaction to his filing.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Thanks MsGrin
for keeping us current on the events.
The DNC stuff smells but not as bad as the foundation issues. I suspect we won't ever see that corrupt fake foundation revealed...too many others in the stew. I think the same about T-rump and the Russians. No election rigging...All he did was launder oligarchs dirty money with real estate sales...and there are too many others using that game to let the sheeple know.
Maybe the Shill's dirty DNC doings will see the light of day? We can hope.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Oops...wrong button
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Heh. Your sig line seems like an appropriate comment here.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Yeah. I posted about it yesterday.
https://caucus99percent.com/content/hillary-clinton-campaign-dnc-accused...
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It's about time a suit was started, other than the Beck's.
I suppose the Federal judge in the Beck's case, Zloch, is allowing that case to proceed once a "legitimate class" has been assembled. Certainly the legalities of this meet the definition of nonsense: a participant in the class must have read the DNC by-laws AND personally heard DWS or other DNC person say the primary would be fair and square, before that participant could be considered in the class.
This new suit may have more funds behind it given that it is now headed by a former vanquisher of the FEC in McCutcheon. Of course the funds transferred to/from DNC are substantially less than the $22M (or more) stolen in Bernie's case.
P.S.: good to see you posting again.
Status of the DNC fraud lawsuit
In August 2017, the judge in the DNC Fraud lawsuit granted the DNC's motion to dismiss the case, on procedural grounds. The plaintiffs' lawyers (the Becks) appealed Judge Zloch's order to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. As of yet, the appellate court has not issued a decision regarding the appeal.
In the meantime, Jared Beck is writing a book about the 2016 Democratic primary. He's signed a contract with a publisher. Last I heard, they're expecting the book to come out in early 2018.
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@Centaurea They got the new filing
If they get any level of deposing in, their case could very well grow legs.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Not a new filing
It wasn't a new filing. The Becks had the option of filing a new lawsuit, but they chose not to do that. Instead, they decided to appeal the judge's order that dismissed the original lawsuit.
What the Becks filed right before the hurricane hit was the Notice of Appeal on behalf of the plaintiffs.
Until the Court of Appeals rules on the Becks' appeal, nothing further can happen in the lawsuit.
If the Becks win their appeal, the lawsuit can proceed, including discovery.
If their appeal is denied, the original lawsuit will be dead, unless the Becks decide to appeal to SCOTUS. Or, at that point, as an alternative they could file a new lawsuit.
For more information here's the diary I wrote at that time:
https://caucus99percent.com/content/notice-appeal-filed-dnc-fraud-lawsuit
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@Centaurea Not an attorney, I
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
@Alligator Ed @Alligator Ed Actually, it's $80m
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Thank you, MsGrin
Thanks for covering this
This is just one of the issues from the primary that needs to be investigated. The number of people who were kicked off the voting rolls, the exit polls that didn't line up with the vote tallies, the number of coin flips that went to Hillary.
The Russian interference plot was created by her and the FBI to discredit and neutralize Trump when they took over the Steele dossier. I'm hoping that Trump does sue his ass for defamation because of the Golden Showers part of it.
People keep saying that Hillary was just one of the nine secretaries that signed off on the uranium deal. That may be, but she was the only one that was compensated for it when her fraudantion received millions in donations. Did the spouses of the other secretaries also get paid to give a speech to Russian businessmen or was Bill the only one? Why can't people see how this looks in regards to all the other pay for play that they did while she was Secretarie of State? A blind person can see this!
Agree that it's good to hear from you MsGrin
More DLC crookedness courtesy of $hrill.
Normally, I see anything coming from P(F)OX "News," I tune out. However, I worked Bernie's campaign so had a front row seat to the incompetent crooked crap $hrill was pulling. It was beyond ridiculous how poorly her campaign was run. You'd think a supposedly smart, Ivy League educated lawyer would learn after the debacle that was her 2008 campaign. You. Would. Be. Wrong. Rec'd!!
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Really just would like to add
Really just would like to add that if anyone missed this back when and is seeking verification, (some for some reason or another and another being uncertain of Fox and seeking multiple sources,) this was covered repeatedly at the time, although somehow, oddly enough, not in the Clinton-supporting corporate mainstream media, as far as I recall...
https://www.alternet.org/election-2016/how-scotus-decision-best-describe...
(This detail-packed jewel following most especially needs to be read in full at source, if at all possible.)
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/clinton-fundraising-leaves-little...
This next one gives a lengthy series of bullet point, and further gives an idea of the fact that this was established at the time.
https://concisepolitics.com/2016/06/19/hillary-bought-33-states-super-de...
Above followed by said bullet-points and quite interesting. But I suspect that even just these few examples demonstrate that this scam has been long since proven to be factual.
Edit: lol, what looked like lengthy bullet-points on the lay-out my computer provided the first time I went into the above article are actually paragraphs, lol. Hoping my brother will manage the better-going over he was going to do on my system when he came out but had to leave it for the nonce, due to time constraints... and of course it was behaving relatively normally while he was here... Damn Murphy, and his little Law, too!
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Great library of articles
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/01/how-hillary-clinton-bought-the-l...
I'm still partial to Margot Kidder's reporting when our heads were still spinning from the Ides of March eviction:'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member