Is this what money laundering looks like?
by BarbinMD
Wed Apr 07, 2010 at 12:52:04 PM PDT
Is this what money laundering looks like?
The Republican National Committee at the end of last year struck a deal with the Michigan Republican Party that if the state party could raise what turned out to be a half a million dollars for the RNC from its donors, the committee would immediately give the money back, in a scheme apparently devised to increase the RNC’s 2009 fundraising numbers. [...]
The allegations appear to be backed up by FEC reports: Fifteen donors from Michigan maxed out their donations to the committee on a single day —Dec. 31 — the last day of 2009 — giving $456,000 to the committee. Over the next two months, $500,000 was disbursed back from the RNC’s coffers to those of the Michigan Republican Party, with $250,000 given in January and another $250,000 disbursed in February.
If it walks like a duck ...
But perhaps there is some reasonable explanation for Michigan getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the RNC, more than any other state by far, in the aftermath of this frenzy of generosity from Michigan Republicans -- some logical explanation for the RNC to be handing over $250,000 to the Michigan GOP in January when:
... the same month of the competitive Massachusetts senate special election — the Massachusetts GOP only received $42,000.
Perhaps there was some sort of secret election happening in Michigan at the time that needed an infusion of cash.
So far, the always loquacious RNC spokesman Doug Heye has had no comment on the story. But when he's ready to talk, perhaps some enterprising reporter could ask him about this news breaking just days after the RNC's chief of staff was forced out in the aftermath of bondagegate. Coincidence?
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