Elias, who represented Clinton's campaign and the DNC.Īfter the Post story hit, Clinton's former press secretary, Brian Fallon, said he hadn't known about the hiring of Christopher Steele, the British ex-spy who dug up the dirt for Fusion GPS, but if Trump gets impeached, it was worth every dime. Specifically, the Washington Post reported Fusion GPS was hired by attorney Marc E. Trump and his team have called the allegations in the research-including the lascivious claims involving urinating prostitutes that earned it the nickname of the "pee tape" dossier- "ridiculous," "silly" and "fake news." "This complaint fails to even note the Federal Election Commission's affirmation in 2013 of the relevant rule, notes no authority to the contrary, and is patently baseless." "This research work was to support the provision of legal services, and payments made by vendors to sub-vendors are not required to be disclosed in circumstances like this," Wilson said. Wednesday night, the DNC supplied a response from Graham Wilson, a partner at Perkins Coie, which said both the campaign and party complied with the law. "The FEC must investigate this apparent violation and take appropriate action."Ī Clinton spokesman didn't immediately respond to Newsweek requests for comment on the complaint.
"Voters need campaign disclosure laws to be enforced so they can hold candidates accountable for how they raise and spend money," said Noti, who previously worked as the FEC's associate general counsel for policy.
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"By filing misleading reports, the DNC and Clinton campaign undermined the vital public information role of campaign disclosures," said Adav Noti, CLC's senior director of trial litigation and strategy, in a statement. The CLC asked federal elections officials to open an investigation.
Hillary for America, DNC Failed to Disclose Legally Required Information about Funding of Trump-Russia Dossier /vSh1O50QB2- Campaign Legal Center October 25, 2017 "By law, campaign and party committees must disclose the reason money is spent and its recipient." The campaign and party "routed the money through the law firm Perkins Coie and described the purpose as 'legal services' on their FEC reports rather than research," the CLC said online in announcing the complaint. The CLC pointed to a Tuesday Washington Post report that said the Clinton team and the DNC paid Fusion GPS, an opposition research company, to investigate supposed connections between Trump and Russia. The Washington-based Campaign Legal Center (CLC) said in a Wednesday complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that Hillary for America and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) broke campaign finance law by trying to hide payments related to the dossier, which included graphic, unproven claims about the current president's sexual habits.
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Update | Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been hit with a new complaint that alleges it tried to cover up the fact that it helped pay for the infamous "Trump Russia Dossier."
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