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CREW files McDonnell amicus with Supreme Court
CREW filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to uphold the conviction on federal corruption charges of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.
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CREW submits additional information to FEC, OCE regarding Hunter complaint
CREW submitted additions to its request for investigation of Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) by the Office of Congressional Ethics and its request for audit by the FEC.
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CREW files criminal, IRS complaints against 10 dark money groups
CREW filed IRS complaints against 10 “social welfare” groups today for violating their non-profit status by acting as political organizations or for significantly underreporting their political activity.
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CREW files Duncan Hunter complaint with OCE, requests FEC audit
CREW filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics stating that Rep. Duncan Hunter’s (R-CA) campaign committee has acknowledged spending thousands of dollars not related to campaign activity and appears to have spent thousands more not previously identified or reimbursed in its latest Federal Election Commission (FEC) disclosure report.
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CREW files Trump Foundation complaint with IRS
CREW filed a complaint with the IRS stating that the Donald J. Trump Foundation appears to have illegally given $25,000 to a political organization associated with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi while her office was reportedly considering joining a lawsuit involving Trump University and failed to disclose the contribution in its taxes.
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CREW files second supplement to NRA complaint with the IRS
CREW filed a second supplement to its original complaint against the National Rifle Association (NRA), in which it showed that the NRA failed to disclose more than $1 million in contributions to major Democratic and Republican leadership groups, bringing their total undisclosed political spending to nearly $60 million since 2008.
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CREW files Rubio and Fulop PAC complaints with FEC
CREW filed two complaints with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against the Marco Rubio-backing Conservative Solutions PAC, the Steven Fulop-backing Coalition for Progress, as well as IGX LLC and DE First Holdings, two sham companies used to launder donations to the super PACs.
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Complaint: Ernst-backing Koch group broke the law
Trees of Liberty, a dark money non-profit financed and operated by the Koch political network, broke the law in helping Joni Ernst win her primary election in 2014, according to a complaint filed today with the IRS by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and CREW.
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NRA again leaves out millions in political spending on tax forms
After failing to disclose $33.5 million in political activity from 2008 to 2013, the NRA failed to disclose another $25 million in political spending to the IRS in 2014, according to a supplemented complaint filed by CREW today.
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CREW files ethics complaint against Marco Rubio
The Senate Ethics Committee should investigate whether Sen. Marco Rubio violated Senate rules by converting campaign funds to personal funds, CREW requested in a complaint filed today.
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CREW files complaint against Bush super PAC, spies and donors
Right to Rise USA, the main super PAC supporting Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign, accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal donations, constituting multiple law violations, according to a complaint filed today by CREW.
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CREW files CHGO complaint with district attorney
CREW filed a complaint with the District Attorney's office for the District of Columbia to investigate whether Reed, Berman, Canfield, officers, vendors, and/or consultants for CHGO violated federal law by making false statements to the FEC and the IRS and by obstructing an FEC investigation