Tag: Trump

FEC fails to prosecute money laundering scheme

American Democracy Minute for July 14, 2022: Lawsuit Filed Against FEC for Dismissing Credible Complaint on Secret Payments to Trump Family & Insiders

We reported back in May on the Federal Elections Commission deadlock over alleged secret payments benefitting Trump family members. The complaint alleges Trump family members and insiders financially benefited from sweetheart contracts paid out by a political action committee supporting President Trump’s re-election campaign. The Campaign Legal Center has now filed a lawsuit contesting that decision.

American Democracy Minute for June 10, 2022: State AG Investigates Alleged Voting Machine Tampering by Big Lie Proponents in 11 MI Townships

It’s not only the January 6th committee who has questions about security breaches after the 2020 election. Michigan’s attorney general is pursuing allegations in 11 towns in Michigan of voting machine tampering or the sharing of electronic data from tabulation machines to third parties. The tampering was apparently instigated by local Trump loyalists who believed former President Trump’s now debunked claims of voter fraud.

American Democracy Minute for June 8, 2022: Intrigue, Conspiracies & Cover-Ups in Prime Time – It’s Thursday’s Insurrection Hearings

There will be conspiracies, drama, betrayal, blood, death and a coverup during primetime this week. But not of the HBO variety. Thursday night, June 9th at 8 pm, the January 6th Committee hearings begin, laying out an enormous trove of information gleaned from over 1,000 interviews conducted in the 500 days since the January 6th 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.