Money in Politics

CREW submitted comments with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) urging the Commission to take strong action to increase transparency and reduce the opportunities for money to influence politics.

In order to fight a new form of dark money organization, CREW today filed complaints against political groups posing as non-profit social welfare organizations but existing only to benefit the presidential campaign of Marco Rubio and the senate campaign of Thom Tillis.

CREW today filed a complaint with the IRS urging the agency to investigate a secretive Michigan political organization called Michigan Advocacy Trust (MAT) for spending millions of dollars on political ads without disclosing its donors. 

CREW today called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether former U.S. Senator Scott Brown violated the law by failing to disclose his financial interest in AdvoCare nutritional products when he endorsed them on Facebook and in other communications to his supporters.