Thread by @jennycohn1

“Donald Trump’s campaign and the RNC have paid at least $1.8 million to a political operative whose roster of companies include several that have been repeatedly investigated for voter registration fraud…” - 11/5/16
1/ cc: ⁦@Annette_Taddeo⁩ ⁦ fortune.com/2016/11/05/tru…

2/ “Three employees of Strategic Allied Consulting, a firm owned by conservative operative Nathan Sproul, pleaded guilty in Florida 4 years ago to felony charges related to altering & destroying scores of voter registration forms. There were no formal actions against the firm.”

3/ “Yet recent federal campaign finance reports reviewed by The Associated Press show Sproul is now back on the RNC’s payroll, this time with a firm named Lincoln Strategy Group, a renamed version of his former firm Sproul & Associates, …

4/ … an Arizona-based firm that was investigated for alleged voter registration misconduct in Nevada and Oregon.”

5/ “Although Sproul was never charged in the 2012 Florida case, GOP officials and Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign considered the charges against his employees alone serious enough to fire his company in 2012.”