Complaint: Bannon, Mercer Dodged California Taxes
A legal watchdog group has filed a complaint alleging Steve Bannon and Rebekah Mercer failed to properly register groups in California, avoiding corporate taxes as well as disclosure laws.
LACHLAN MARKAY
04.14.17 1:05 AM ET
A network of political groups tied to Donald Trump’s chief strategist may have dodged corporate taxes and shielded information about its executives by using Delaware shell companies to surreptitiously conduct business in another state.
The allegations involve a constellation of groups financed by the wealthy Trump-backing Mercer family: a super PAC called Make America Number 1 and two Delaware-incorporated political vendors, film production company Glittering Steel, and data firm Cambridge Analytica.
The super PAC has steered large sums to the two companies, which have in turn paid consulting fees to chief White House strategist Steve Bannon. The payments to and from Cambridge Analytica and Glittering Steel were sent to a single Beverly Hills address.
That indicates that the companies were engaged in intrastate commerce in California, according to a complaint filed with the state’s attorney general and secretary of State on Wednesday by the Campaign Legal Center, a legal watchdog group.
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