Jill Stein hired Paul Manafort's lawyer with election recount money.

[RandySF]

In June, The Daily Beast reported that the the U.S. Green Party candidate’s campaign, which raised $7.3 million for recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, had in 2017 stopped disclosing its monthly spending with the Federal Election Commission. Later that month, the Jill Stein for President committee filed a slew of reports that reveal spending on lawyers who are not trying to get inside any voting machines.

At the end of May 2018, according to the most recent FEC filing, the Stein campaign paid the “Partnership for Civil Justice” $66,441.60; that is on top of a $31,536 payment made in January, and more than the Stein campaign had in cash on hand by November 2016.

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund is a nonprofit law firm whose mission is to “defend and advance fundamental civil, constitutional and human rights,” per a 2016 IRS filing. On its website, the group notes that it is representing Stein in her dealings before the the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

In May 2018, the Stein campaign also paid $9,325 in attorney fees to Miller & Chevalier. In August 2017, Politico described it as “a boutique firm in Washington” that had taken on the case of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman. Manafort, accused of by special counsel Robert Mueller of money laundering, is currently in jail.


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[madaboutharry]

1. Another terrible person.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. .

[not fooled]

3. Lawyer up, jill

you two-bit tool of vlad and twisted traitor.

[bearsfootball516]

4. I can't believe how many people actually donated to her "recount"

[mbusby]

6. He's one....

....me. Sounded like the right thing to do at the time.

[Mike Nelson]

5. Con woman...

… surprised Trump hasn't asked her to work for him...maybe that's coming...

[Scurrilous]

7. ...

[Takket]

8. surely there must be some law she has broken............

If she raised all the money for the recount and SAID it was for the recount, can she legally spend it on other things???

[ProudLib72]

9. From further down in the article

A 2006 FEC guidance states that candidates who raise money for recounts may use that money for “post-election litigation and administrative-proceeding expenses concerning the casting and counting of ballots during the Federal election, fees for the payment of staff assisting the recount or election contest efforts, and administrative and overhead expenses in connection with recounts and election contests.”

“The short answer is that I believe Stein’s spending is likely compliant with FEC rules,” Noti, now senior director for trial litigation at the Campaign Legal Center, wrote in an email. “The somewhat longer answer is that for many years the FEC has allowed candidates and political parties to get away with pretty much anything in the context of recount accounts, so the restrictions on those accounts, to the extent there can even be said to be restrictions, are a complete mess.”

It looks like the only good that can come of it is to make contributors wary of how their candidate will be spending the money.

[Cha]

10. Jill Stein.. a Liar and a RF.. claims

it's just a coincidence she sits with putin and general mike Flynn.

[kentuck]

11. Something stinks....

She was paid to stay in the race until the end, even though she had no chance of winning anything. Just to take votes from Hillary. That's my opinion.

[ffr]

12. Weirdly coincidental.

Two pro-Russian campaigners on the same team.