12/27/2017 The Anatomy Of Hillary Clinton's $84 Million Money-Laundering Scheme
Tyler Durden
Anatomy Of Hillary Clintons $84 Million Money Laundering Scheme
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-27/anatomy-hillary-clintons-84-million-money-laundering-scheme Dan Backer
Anatomy Of Hillary Clintons $84 Million Money Laundering Scheme
https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/the-anatomy-of-hillary-clintons-84-million-money-laundering-scheme/In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of my client, Alabama engineer Shaun McCutcheon, in his challenge to the Federal E******n Commission's (FEC) outdated "aggregate limits," which effectively limited how many candidates any one donor could support.Anti-speech liberals railed against McCutcheon's win, arguing it would create supersized "Joint Fundraising Committees" (JFCs).
In court, they claimed these JFCs would allow a single donor to cut a multimillion-dollar check, and the JFC would then route funds through dozens of participating state parties, who would then funnel it back to the final recipient.
Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer claimed the Supreme Court's McCutcheon v. FEC ruling would lead to "the system of legalized bribery recreated that existed prior to Watergate.” McCutcheon v. FEC’s Other Threat: Case Could Super-Size Joint Fundraising Committees
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/07/mccutcheon-joint-fundraising-committees_n_4057547.html The Supreme Court, in ruling for us, flatly stated such a scheme would still be illegal.McCutcheon v. Federal E******n Commission:
Docket No.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/docketfiles/12-536.htm Argument.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/2013/12-536 https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2013/12-536_2k81.pdf Opinion.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-536_e1pf.pdf Op. Below.
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2012cv1034-26 Term.
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/terms/ot2013/ McCutcheon v. Federal E******n Commission
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/mccutcheon-v-federal-e******n-commission/ The Democrats' response? Hold my beer.The Committee to Defend the President has filed an FEC complaint against Hillary Clinton's campaign, Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic state parties and Democratic mega-donors.20171214 Hillary Victory FEC Complaint
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9lbrytrrb3xrak6/AABFuPzgD5NQ76snCBeeRRJJa?dl=0 Hillary Victory FEC Com…int.pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9lbrytrrb3xrak6/AABFuPzgD5NQ76snCBeeRRJJa?dl=0&preview=Hillary+Victory+FEC+Complaint.pdf Exhibits 1, to Hillary Victory FEC Complaint.pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9lbrytrrb3xrak6/AABFuPzgD5NQ76snCBeeRRJJa?dl=0&preview=Exh+1+to+Hillary+Victory+FEC+Complaint.pdf Exhibits 2. to Hillary Victory FEC Complaint .pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9lbrytrrb3xrak6/AABFuPzgD5NQ76snCBeeRRJJa?dl=0&preview=Exh+2+to+Hillary+Victory+FEC+Complaint+.pdf As Fox News reported,
we documented the Democratic establishment "using state chapters as straw men to circumvent campaign donation limits and laundering the money back to her campaign.”Hillary Clinton campaign, DNC accused of 'corrupt' money scheme in new FEC complaint
www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/19/hillary-clinton-campaign-dnc-accused-corrupt-money-scheme-in-new-fec-complaint.html The 101-page complaint focused on the Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) — the $500 million joint fundraising committee between the Clinton campaign, DNC, and dozens of state parties —
which did exactly that the Supreme Court declared would still be illegal.
HVF solicited six-figure donations from major donors, including Calvin Klein and "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, and
routed them through state parties en route to the Clinton campaign. The Clinton Foundation Scandal
https://www.investors.com/politics/clinton-foundation-scandal/ Roughly $84 million may have been laundered in what might be the single largest campaign finance scandal in U.S. history.
Here's what we know: Campaign finance law is incredibly complex and infamous for its lack of clarity. As I've explained before, its complexity is a feature, not a bug.
Why Campaign Finance Rules Make Free Speech Expensive For The Little Guy. By using power, money, and influence to silence dissenting speech, elites go beyond honest political debate and threaten the very nature of democracy.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/18/campaign-finance-rules-make-free-speech-expensive-little-guy/ Major political players with the resources to hire the very few attorneys who practice campaign finance law benefit from the complexity that keeps others out.
Perhaps HVF's architects thought so too, and assumed that if no one understands what's happening, no one would complain.Here's what you can do, legally:
Per e******n, an individual donor can contribute $2,700 to any candidate, $10,000 to any state party committee, and (during the 2016 cycle) $33,400 to a national party's main account.
These groups can all get together and take a single check from a donor for the sum of those contribution limits — it's legal because the donor cannot exceed the base limit for any one recipient.
And state parties can make unlimited t***sfers to their national party.Here's what you can't do, which the Clinton machine appeared to do anyway:As the Supreme Court made clear in McCutcheon v. FEC, the
JFC may not solicit or accept contributions to circumvent base limits, through "earmarks" and "straw men" that are ultimately excessive — there are five separate prohibitions here.
On top of that, six-figure donations either never actually passed through state party accounts or were never actually under state party control, which adds false FEC reporting by HVF, state parties, and the DNC to the laundry list.Finally:
as Donna Brazile and others admitted, the DNC placed the funds under the Clinton campaign's direct control, a massive breach of campaign finance law that ties the conspiracy together.Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC. When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking t***h about the Clinton campaign.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774 Democratic donors, knowing the funds would end up with Clinton's campaign, wrote six-figure checks to influence the e******n — 100 times larger than allowed.
HVF bundled these megagifts and, on a single day, reported t***sferring money to all participating state parties, some of which would then show up on FEC reports filed by the DNC as t***sferring the exact same dollar amount on the exact same day to the DNC.
Yet not all the state parties reported either receiving or t***sferring those sums.Did any of these t***sfers actually happen?
Or were they just paper entries to mask direct t***sfers to the DNC?For perspective, conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza was prosecuted and convicted in 2012 for giving a handful of associates money they then contributed to a candidate of his preference — in other words, straw-man contributions.
Dinesh D’Souza avoids jail time, gets five years of probation for campaign finance violation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/09/23/dinesh-dsouza-avoids-jail-time-get-five-years-of-probation-for-campaign-finance-violation/? He was sentenced to eight months in a community confinement center and five years of probation.
How much money was involved? Only $20,000.
HVF weighs in at $84 million — more than 4,000 times larger!So who should be worried?
Everyone involved — from the donors themselves to Democratic fundraisers to party officials who filed false reports and, ultimately, to Clinton campaign and HVF officials looking at significant legal jeopardy.Don't take my word for it.
Our complaint is built entirely on the FEC reports filed by Democrats, memos authored by Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook, and public statements from Donna Brazile and others.DNC, Clinton memo set rules on funds Clinton raised for general e******n
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/03/politics/dnc-clinton-memorandum-of-understanding/index.html Donna Brazile: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC. When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking t***h about the Clinton campaign.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774 The only question that matters:
Was the law broken?
If the answer is yes, then the corrupt Clinton machine should be held accountable.Will Shocking New Fusion GPS Revelations Take Down Hillary Clinton And DNC
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/will-shocking-new-fusion-gps-revelations-take-down-hillary-clinton-and-dnc/