The Federal Election Commission is fining a super PAC that supported former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush for accepting over $1.3 million in illegal donations from Chinese nationals.
The Right to Rise super political action committee was fined $390,000 for soliciting the foreign contributions during the 2016 campaign. American Pacific International Capital, a Chinese-owned company, was fined $550,000 for giving the donation.
The federal agency hasn’t publicly announced the decision. But the Campaign Legal Center, which brought the FEC complaint, released agency documents announcing the fine on Monday.
A Right to Rise spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The group raised $121 million for Bush’s failed presidential bid.
Bush is a former Florida governor, as well as the brother and son of former presidents.
(AP)
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Yet the Democrats claimed (under oath, when they gave it to the FBI to get an FBI wiretap on Trump) they had received a “dossier” on Trump from the Russians. That dossier, if it was “true” would have been worth millions. So why no objection from the Federal Election Commission (perhaps reflecting the bias against Trump they displayed in 2016)?
Jeb needed the kesef to enhance his low energy.
I did a little web search, and this is so convoluted. It seems that a company named American Pacific International Capital, which is a private corporation founded in 2002 and headquartered in the US city of San Francisco, California, (and allegedly wholly owned by a corporation based out of China) donated the money to the campaign. It seems to invest money by buying “property”, such as hotels, in both the U.S. and China. Jeb Bush’s brother Neil sits on the board of this corporation. He allegedly “discussed” (whatever that means) donating money to Bush’s campaign with one or two of the other board members who allegedly happened to be Chinese nationals. That made the donations into a foreign-Chinese donation by an American company because allegedly:
> a foreign national can’t “direct, dictate, control, or directly or indirectly participate in” a corporation’s decision-making process around election-related activities
But what is not clear is just what this “discussion” entailed? Who authorized the donation? Who voted on it? Who signed thee check?
It further seems that the original complaint was launched by the Campaign Legal Center.