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NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre Targeted in Congressional Inquiry Into Illegal Campaign Coordination
https://www.thetrace.org/2019/02/nra-congressional-inquiry-illegal-coordination/
BY MIKE SPIES at the Trace
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Joint congressional inquiry is demanding that National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre hand over internal documents showing whether the NRA made illegal, excessive, and unreported in-kind donations to the campaigns of Donald Trump and several GOP Senate candidates.
The probe, led by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, and Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, is based on a series of investigative reports published by The Trace laying out evidence that the NRA and its vendors used apparent shell companies to evade rules prohibiting coordination between outside groups and the campaigns they support.
The evidence shows the NRA is moving money through a complex web of shell organizations to avoid campaign finance rules and boost candidates willing to carry their water, Whitehouse told The Trace. And if the NRA can weave such a web, so can Vladimir Putin and others trying to undermine our democracy. We need the truth about this scheme or else special interests like the gun lobby or foreign interests like Russia can flaunt the law and erode the integrity of our elections.
Whitehouse and Raskin are demanding documents from LaPierre and five related vendors that have either worked for the NRA or for candidates it supported: OnMessage; Red Eagle Media; Starboard Strategic Inc.; American Media & Advocacy Group; and National Media Research, Planning, and Placement.
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demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)gonna need an all new repuke party before it is all over
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)of a whole lot more!
Terrorist organization. Few groups I hate worse.
And what the fuck are they lobbying against an ivory ban? Really? That's your thing?
Can't wait till Code Pink starts marching over prison reform.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Hassler
(3,379 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That would be really too bad.
phylny
(8,380 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)Until you see the scope of it. Right, McConnell? You complicit traitor!