CLC Sues FEC over Dismissal of Complaint Alleging Violations by Trump Campaign

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Today, we filed suit against the @FEC.

The FEC’s inability to do its job and properly investigate the complaint we filed in July 2020 is just the latest example of the agency’s failures hindering voters’ right to know how political money is being spent.

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CLC Sues FEC over Dismissal of Complaint Alleging Violations by Trump Campaign
CLC has sued to get the FEC to do its job and no longer keep voters in the dark about where money came from and how it was spent.
1:56 PM · Jul 8, 2022

https://campaignlegal.org/update/clc-sues-fec-over-dismissal-complaint-alleging-violations-trump-campaign

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has filed a lawsuit in District of Columbia federal court, challenging the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) recent dismissal of an administrative complaint that CLC filed against the campaign committees of then-President Donald Trump in July 2020 and later supplemented in January 2021.

The underlying administrative complaint alleged that Trump’s 2020 campaign violated federal campaign finance transparency requirements by funneling hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to campaign staff and vendors through firms affiliated with the campaign, thereby hiding the details of those payments from the public.

The FEC is the only government agency whose sole responsibility is overseeing the integrity of our political campaigns. The FEC’s inability to do its job and properly investigate CLC’s allegations is just the latest example of the agency’s failures hindering voters’ right to know how political money is being spent.

In this case, the Trump campaign was able to keep voters in the dark regarding payments to several high-profile individuals, including the partners of his adult children.

CLC’s lawsuit, filed July 8, 2022, asks the court to declare that the FEC’s dismissal of the administrative complaint was unlawful.

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The largest campaign finance lawsuit ever filed. More than $750,000,000 in violations by the Trump campaign.

[captain queeg]

1. So initial complaint was filed in 2020 while TFG was still president?

Not surprising that it was swept under the rug.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Great news and good luck!

[Faux pas]

3. Kickin'

[SunSeeker]

4. Good. The FEC went after Hillary for some trivial bullshit, but let Trump's huge grift go.

The FEC has about as much credibility as the Supreme Court, and for the same reason.

[ancianita]

5. If Dems gain in the Senate, they've got to revisit the structure of the FEC.

[rubbersole]

6. $750,000,000!

I don't doubt it for a second.