Legal Complaints
CREW asks IRS to investigate Prosperity Alliance
Prosperity Alliance, a dark money group active in Ohio, may have violated its tax-exempt status by making politics its primary activity.
Lawsuits
CREW sues for DOJ and FBI records on Cohen campaign finance crimes
The requested records are crucial to public understanding of how many others close to Trump were or may have been involved in Cohen’s crimes.
Legal Complaints
CREW asks DC Circuit to restore FEC accountability in amicus brief
CREW is challenging the dangerous idea that campaign finance laws are contingent on the whim of a partisan bloc of the FEC.
Legal Complaints
CREW files amicus brief on SpeechNow suit
CREW argued that the DC Circuit erred in SpeechNow.Org v. FEC when it created super PACs.
Lawsuits
CREW sues FEC over inaction on complaint against Freedom Vote
The FEC has thus far failed to make Freedom Vote register as a political committee and report donors, setting a dangerous precedent for other dark money groups.
Legal Complaints
CREW files a complaint against Progressive Advocacy Trust
Progressive Advocacy Trust appears to have improperly failed to report contributions it received and expenditures it made in 2018.
Legal Complaints
CREW files complaint against Freedom Frontier
Freedom Frontier operated primarily to influence political campaigns by contributing more than half of its total spending to political organizations.
Legal Complaints
CREW requests IRS investigate America’s Renewable Future, Inc.
Former Trump official Eric Branstad led America's Renewable Future, Inc. failed to file tax returns on significant 2015-6 political spending.
Lawsuits
CREW sues FEC for failure to act against dark money group in over 6 years
The FEC’s failure to act has allowed American Jobs for Security to keep confidential information it was required to disclose under the FECA.
Legal Complaints
CREW requests IRS investigation into West Virginia dark money group
Go West Virginia, Inc. appears to have violated its status as a tax-exempt organization by contributing more than half of its total spending to a political organization.
Legal Complaints
CREW calls FEC to investigate Greitens campaign’s secret donor scheme
Eric Greitens' supporters executed a conduit contribution scheme to avoid disclosing the identity of donors trying to influence the election.
Legal Complaints
CREW calls IRS & FEC to investigate Freedom Vote
Ohio-based dark money group Freedom Vote appears to have directly and seriously violated federal campaign finance law.