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Two lawmakers demanded that the FBI and the Federal Election Commission open an investigation into whether the Trump campaign violated federal law by spending hundreds of millions of reelection money through a company that White House advisor Jared Kushner created.
The lawmakers letter comes hours after Insider reported that the Trump campaign had spent $617 million through a company that the president s son-in-law helped establish in 2018.
In the letter obtained exclusively by Insider, Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Kathleen Rice of New York noted that campaign finance violations above $25,000 are felonies punishable by up to five years in prison.
Ramon Cota of Chicago has repeatedly used social media to profess his support for President-elect Joe Biden, and disdain for President Donald Trump.
According to Delaware incorporation records, Cota signed paperwork in April 2018 that formed American Made Media Consultants the company that Insider reported spent almost half of the $1.26 billion in the campaign s coffers and secretly paid the president s family members.
Cota listed the Chicago office address of CSC, a Delaware-based company that provides clients with comprehensive business formation solutions and bills itself as the business behind business, in the American Made Media Consultants incorporation paperwork.
Reached through Twitter direct message on Friday, Cota, who does not appear to be involved in American Made Media Consultants operations beyond helping incorporate it, declined to comment.
Kushner Helped Launch Shell Company That Paid Campaign Funds To Trump Family: Report
A complaint to the Federal Election Commission claims American Made Media Consultants shields the identities of fund recipients.
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A campaign shell company created in part by Jared Kushner spent half of President Donald Trump’s massive war chest and secretly paid Trump family members and associates, according to a bombshell report in Business Insider Friday.
Lara Trump, the wife of the president’s middle son, Eric Trump, was head of the company, and a nephew of Vice President Mike Pence served as its vice president of the company, Business Insider reported.
Jared Kushner signed off on $617 million company to ease Trump s paranoia about Brad Parscale Salon 12/19/2020 Brad Parscale and Jared Kushner Getty Images/Salon
Top White House adviser Jared Kushner, son-in-law to outgoing President Donald Trump, helped create a shell company which made it impossible to know who received nearly $620 million of the Trump campaign s 2020 expenses. Campaign lawyers devised the company to increase Trump s own insight into his campaign s expenses, a former top-level campaign staffer confirmed to Salon.
The company, American Made Media Consultants (AMMC), was launched in spring of 2018 and mostly served as a conduit for the campaign to pay media and advertising vendors. The entity also made it impossible for the public to see which vendors the campaign hired and how much they were paid. In all, the Trump campaign and sister committee Trump Victory reported that of the $1.2 billion spent on Trump s f