FEC Fines Clinton Campaign, DNC for Funding Steele Dossier
By Charlie McCarthy
| Wednesday, 30 March 2022 01:46
PM
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/fec-dnc-hillary-clinton-campaign-trump/2022/03/30/id/1063586/
The Federal Election Commission has fined Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign
and the Democratic National Committee (DNC)
for lying about funding a discredited dossier, which attempted to smear
then-candidate Donald Trump, the Washington Examiner reported.
A dossier written by former British intelligence officer
Christopher Steele was circulated to the FBI and media outlets before the 2016 election. Its
unproven assertions that Russia had embarrassing information about Trump and
some of his campaign's advisers were meant to damage Trump.
The FEC said Clinton and the DNC violated strict rules on
describing expenditures of payments funneled to the opposition research firm
Fusion GPS through their law firm, the Examiner reported
Wednesday.
The FEC, in a memo to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation,
which filed a complaint more than three years ago, said it fined Clinton's
treasurer $8,000 and the DNC's treasurer $105,000.
"This may well be the first time that Hillary
Clinton — one of the most evidently corrupt politicians in American history —
has actually been held legally accountable, and I'm proud to have forced the
FEC to do their job for once," Dan Backer, who brought the complaint on
behalf of the foundation, which focuses on free speech and the First Amendment,
told the Examiner.
The DNC and Clinton campaign claimed a combined
$1,024,407.97 was paid for legal services, not opposition research, to law firm
Perkins Coie for Fusion GPS' information.
The money — $849,407.97 from the DNC and $175,000 from
the Clinton campaign — covered Fusion GPS' opposition research on the
dossier, which fueled the so-called "Russia hoax."
The Clinton campaign and DNC argued they paid for "legal
advice and services" because it was Perkins Coie, not them, that hired Fusion GPS. The
FEC, however, said the law was clear and violated.
Clinton has in the past defended her campaign's spending
for the information and the work of campaign lawyer Marc Elias, who worked for Fusion GPS, which compiled
the dossier.
"Solely for the purpose of settling this matter
expeditiously and to avoid further legal costs, respondent[s] does not concede,
but will not further contest the commission's finding of probable cause to
proceed," the FEC said in its memo.
News of the fine came less than a week after Trump sued Clinton and
several other Democrats, alleging that they tried to rig the election by tying
his campaign to Russia.
"Hillary Clinton and her cronies willfully engaged
in the greatest political fraud in history — destroying our nation's faith in
the electoral process, and it's high time they were held accountable,"
Backer told the Examiner. "I hope this is only the beginning."
Igor Danchenko, the primary researcher of the
dossier, was arrested in
November as part of special counsel John Durham's investigation. Danchenko was
charged with "five counts of making false statements to the FBI."
Danchenko provided information to Steele, who compiled
the accusations about Trump in a series of reports.
Durham in December told a federal court that, as part of
his criminal probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, he was examining members of
Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
In February, Durham alleged that indicted former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann shared data purported to show rare Russian-made phones being used near the Trump White House as part of an alleged scheme to tie Trump to Russia.
Connecting the Dots:
Hillary Rodham
Clinton was the candidate for the 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign and a director at
the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary) supported
the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton
presidential campaign.
George Soros is the founder & chairman
for the Open Society Foundations,
a co-chair, national finance council for the Ready
PAC (Ready For Hillary) and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Open Society Foundations was a
funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea
Clinton Foundation.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Drum Major Institute for Public
Policy and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Jennifer
Cunningham is a director at the Drum
Major Institute for Public Policy and a managing director at SKDKnickerbocker.
Anita B. Dunn is
a managing director at SKDKnickerbocker,
married to Robert F. Bauer, was
the communications director for the Barack
Obama administration and William
W. Bradley’s chief of staff.
Robert F. Bauer is
married to Anita B. Dunn, a
partner at Perkins Coie, the
general counsel for the Democratic National
Committee (DNC), was the White House counsel for the Barack Obama administration and Barack Obama’s personal counsel.
Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS to investigate Donald Trump.
Democratic National Committee (DNC) hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump.
William W. Bradley’s
chief of staff was Anita B. Dunn and is
a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
James F. Collins is
a senior associate at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and was a U.S.
ambassador for Russia.
Jon M. Huntsman
Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at
the National Committee on United
States-China Relations, was the China U.S. ambassador for the Barack Obama administration and a
distinguished fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Jessica
Tuchman Mathews is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)
and was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)
and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George Soros was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Trevor Potter was
a fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank) and the chairman for the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Bart
Friedman is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and a senior partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel.
Steven L. Rattner a
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank) and attended Andrew Ross
Sorkin’s 2009 book party (Too
Big to Fail).
Andrew Ross
Sorkin is the author of Too Big to
Fail and Laurence T. Sorkin’s son.
Laurence T.
Sorkin is Andrew Ross Sorkin’s father
and a senior counsel at Cahill Gordon &
Reindel.
Ellen L.
Weintraub was an attorney at Cahill
Gordon & Reindel and is a commissioner for the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the International Rescue Committee.
George Soros was the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Michelle Obama was an
advocate for the ONE Campaign, the
first lady for the Barack Obama
administration and is married to Barack Obama.
Cindy Hensley McCain was
an advocate for the ONE Campaign
and is married to Senator John S. McCain
III.
John S. McCain III is
married to Cindy Hensley McCain
and a U.S. Senate senator.
John McCain Stays
Silent on Involvement in Hoax Trump Dossier After Fusion GPS Revelations
By AARON KLEIN11 Jan 2018
Last December, it was revealed that it was McCain who notoriously passed the
controversial dossier documents produced by the Washington opposition research
firm Fusion GPS to then FBI Director James Comey,
whose agency reportedly utilized the
dossier as a basis for its probe into alleged Russian interference in the
2016 presidential election.
ONE Campaign is a partner with
the International Rescue Committee.
Maureen White was
a national finance chair for the International
Rescue Committee, and a national finance chair for the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Democratic National Committee (DNC) hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the International Rescue
Committee.
George Soros was the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
ONE Campaign is a partner with
the International Rescue Committee.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign and the New York
Mayor.
Clifford S.
Asness is a director at the International
Rescue Committee and supported same-sex
marriage in New York.
Paul E. Singer
supported same-sex marriage in
New York, is a funder for the Washington Free Beacon and an investor in
the Washington Free Beacon.
Washington Free Beacon hired Fusion GPS to investigate 2016 Republican
presidential candidates, hired in 2015 to investigate GOP candidates.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the International Rescue
Committee.
George Soros was the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society,
a co-chair, national finance council for the Ready
PAC (Ready For Hillary) and is the founder & chairman for
the Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a
funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea
Clinton Foundation.
HSBC Holdings plc was a funder
for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary) supported
the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton
presidential campaign.
James B. Comey was
a director at the HSBC Holdings plc,
investigated, for possible Russian ties
in the 2016 Donald Trump presidential
campaign, impacted, with announcement about email investigation in
the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton
presidential campaign, a deputy attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice and a director for
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is
a division of the U.S. Department of
Justice.
Robert S.
Mueller III was a director for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, is a
special counsel at the U.S. Department of
Justice, and a special counsel investigating Russian ties in the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign.
Cameron F. Kerry was
an associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering
Hale and Dorr, is John F.
Kerry’s brother, a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a
senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
George Soros was the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Trevor Potter was
a fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank) and the chairman for the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley
Austin LLP, Robert F. Bauer was his personal counsel,
the president for the Barack Obama
administration and is married to Michelle
Obama.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP,
an advocate for the ONE Campaign,
the first lady for the Barack Obama
administration, and is married to Barack
Obama.
ONE Campaign is a partner with
the International Rescue Committee.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the International Rescue
Committee.
George Soros was the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Cindy Hensley
McCain was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign and is married to Senator
John S. McCain III.
John S. McCain III is
married to Cindy Hensley McCain
and a U.S. Senate senator.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign and the New York
Mayor.
Clifford S.
Asness is a director at the International
Rescue Committee and supported same-sex
marriage in New York.
Paul E. Singer
supported same-sex marriage in
New York, is a funder for the Washington Free Beacon
and an investor in the Washington
Free Beacon.
Washington Free Beacon hired Fusion GPS to investigate 2016 Republican presidential candidates, hired in 2015 to investigate GOP candidates.
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FEC Shoots Down
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SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2013
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Seth MacFarlane, Barry
Diller to Host Hillary Clinton Fundraisers in L.A. (Past
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
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Russia to Ukraine:
Surrender Crimean Forces or Face 'Military Storm' (Past
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MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014
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Hoax Trump Dossier
After Fusion GPS Revelations (Past Research on Fusion GPS)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018
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Donald Trump Will Not
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MONDAY, JUNE 5, 2017
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Jared Kushner’s lawyer
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SATURDAY, JULY 22, 2017
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