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The Daily Beast reports:
On Wednesday morning, The Daily Beast published a report detailing how Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and four associated PACs have been using a GOP compliance firm to pay legal fees, obscuring who is the ultimate recipient of millions of dollars in legal payments.
By Wednesday night, the Trump campaign and the four PACs were facing a new ethics complaint over the arrangement.
The complaint, which nonprofit watchdog Campaign Legal Center filed with the Federal Election Commission Wednesday afternoon, argues that Trump and his associated PACs aren’t just violating federal reporting rules; they’re also violating the ban on corporate contributions.
USA Today reports:
The complaint filed Wednesday by the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit government watchdog, centers on a company called Red Curve Solutions, which allegedly received $7.2 million from Trump’s campaign and four other related political committees between Dec. 7, 2022, and March 18, 2024, according to a CLC press release.
Campaigns often pay outside organizations to manage polling, consulting or other needs. The Campaign Legal Center said in its Wednesday release that virtually all of the payments from Trump’s campaign and committees are described as “Reimbursement for Legal Fees” or “Reimbursement for Legal Expenses”
However, Red Curve “does not appear to offer any legal services,” CLC notes, while pointing out that Red Curve is managed by Bradley Crate, the same individual who serves as the treasurer for Trump’s campaign and the four other committees.
That was fast — @CampaignLegal just filed a complaint alleging that the Trump campaign team broke the law by concealing Trump’s largest legal payments behind a corporate vendor, after I broke the news this morning https://t.co/c5JKSJUmbw
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) April 24, 2024