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THIS is interesting. The Now Or Never PAC gave $1.7 mil to GOP candidates in the 2012 election and now a court has given the green light for the Fed Election Commission to reveal the source of the $. Can you say RUSSIA?! #SaturdayThoughts politico.com/story/2019/04/…
2-"An anonymous individual who secretly funneled $1.7 million to a super PAC in 2012 will soon be revealed after a lengthy legal fight — if a new appeals court decision in Washington is not put off for further review by the court. The person’s identity has remained a secret for
3-"years as the Federal Election Commission investigated a complaint into how the money was routed through intermediaries to a Missouri-based super PAC, Now or Never PAC. The group spent close to $8 million promoting GOP candidates in the 2012 election, including Missouri
4-"Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin. Now or Never PAC is supposed to reveal its donors regularly under federal law but never disclosed the original source of the funds, instead filing a disclosure that showed a $1.7 million contribution from the American Conservative Union,
5-"the organizers of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference...The FEC reached an agreement in with ACU in 2017 over its role in moving the donation and the ACU paid the FEC a $350,000 fine. But some parties refused to cooperate with the FEC in the case,
6-"Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said in a statement released in late 2017, making it difficult for the FEC to find the original source of the funds." ~politico
