Donation Scandal Hits Romney Campaign

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Mark Anderson
American Free Press
Aug 19, 2011

When the Supreme Court removed the last barriers to corporate funding for political campaigns in the infamous Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission case in early 2011, the floodgates were opened for corruption in an electoral system already marred by electronic vote scamming and huge ballot access hurdles for candidates in third parties.

Now, a case involving Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is sparking investigations, because a shell company was formed by one of Romney’s cronies just long enough to pump $1million into his 2012 White House campaign before the company was closed down.

The Hill offered some specifics onAug. 8, noting that “Romney wouldn’t condemn Edward Conrad, a former executive at Bain Capital, the company Romney cofounded, for setting up a company to contribute the bulk sum to the Restore Our Future PAC.”

Conrad had suddenly confessed that he was the phantomdonor who cobbled together W Spann LLC, “a corporation that was founded this year and dissolved shortly after contributing to Restore Our Future, a super-PAC that can receive and spend unlimited amounts ofmoney that was founded
by veterans of Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign.”

The Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 have filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the Justice Department (DOJ) against W Spann. Online news website TPM reports: “the two groups are also asking the FEC and DOJ to formally investigate the activities of the F8 LLC and Eli Publishing L.C. [two more phantom companies] for possible violations of the ban on making contributions in the name of another and for failing to organize and register as a political committee. The groups also want the agencies to look into whether Restore Our Future had any knowledge or involvement in the ‘straw company’ donation scheme.”

“Why should a corporation be able to do it and not have it be considered illegal?” Carl Person, a New York attorney and a 2012 presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party, told AFP.

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If Conrad had contributed $1 million as an individual person, “he would have had to report it as an individual to the [Romney] campaign,” said Person, which then would have to “report it to the FEC.” That would be illegal.

Since the last limitations under the 1998 McCain-Feingold campaign finance law were swept away in Citizens United v. FEC, he added, it now could be open season for such hocus-pocus to take place so individuals can channel wads of cash to help corporate-friendly candidates, while posing as a corporate donor. As of now, attorney Person said, “[corporations] cannot give money directly to a candidate, but they can spend the money themselves to benefit that candidate [through advertisements etc].”

Romney, who changes positions on many issues like some people change their socks, is clearly of the genus corporation man. He was immersed in the world of business with Bain, while sitting on the boards of directors of other firms, until about 10 years ago before taking a political trajectory—much like that of his father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney, who was an auto executive before going political with an internationalist, pro big business bent.


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  1. the federal reserve and the scumfucks that run it play fair with nothing and follow no laws at all …….you you have to be fool to vote for this puppet of the moneychangers

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