Trump Campaign Hiding Payments To Top Adviser Embroiled In Child Support Battle

[mfcorey1]

Jason Miller has claimed he speaks to the president daily, yet filings do not show him receiving any money from the reelection campaign.

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is hiding what it pays a top adviser who claims he speaks to the president daily and who is embroiled in a long-running dispute with a former lover over how much child support he can afford to pay.

Jason Miller, who joined the reelection team in late spring after having worked on Trump’s 2016 bid and who served as an informal adviser to him since 2017, has not once appeared in the 2020 campaign’s filings on its expenses with the Federal Election Commission. Also absent from the filings is Miller’s firm, SHW Partners LLC, for which he describes himself as a “principal.”

If Miller can be shown to have a higher income than he has detailed, a court could force him to pay more child support.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-campaign-jason-miller_n_5f61349ac5b65fd7b8561605

[sandensea]

1. Donnie and the Deadbeats

Sounds like a cover band for Ted Nugent (probably another deadbeat himself).

[struggle4progress]

2. Paid $20,000 a month by Bannon nonprofit

ROGER SOLLENBERGER
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 10:00AM (UTC)

Senior Trump campaign official Jason Miller appears to have been paid about $20,000 a month for work done for a nonprofit co-founded by indicted former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, according to public court filings obtained by Salon.

The nonprofit — now reportedly under investigation in connection with the federal charges against Bannon — started paying Miller the same month that Bannon's associates learned they were under federal investigation, court documents and public reports show.

The Trump campaign has not disclosed any payments to Miller since news of his hiring broke in June — nor has the campaign disclosed any salary payments to campaign manager Bill Stepien, according to mandatory federal filings. Publicly available court documents obtained by Salon together with Federal Election Commission (FEC) records suggest that the campaign is paying Miller $35,000 a month, apparently through non-public indirect transactions.

Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged Bannon, along with co-defendants Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea, with running a multimillion-dollar fraud and money laundering scheme, in which they secretly siphoned millions of dollars in payments from their We Build the Wall crowdfunding campaign through a shell company as well as an unnamed nonprofit. The group disguised the allegedly unlawful transactions with fake invoices to hide their own personal takes, according to the indictment ...

https://www.salon.com/2020/09/01/trump-campaign-aide-was-paid-20000-a-month-by-bannon-nonprofit-linked-to-alleged-fraud/

[Victor_c3]

3. As a guy who pays child support, I find this type of behavior appalling

I believe arguing or doing anything to lower the amount I pay to support my children is an insult to both my manliness and to the type of father I want to be. I will go homeless and starve before my kids have to go lower their standard of life.

In fact, despite my previous wife making substantially more money now than when the alimony and child support were calculated, I have not and never will ask to have my support for my children lowered.

I will always love my kids more than I dislike my ex.

[vsrazdem]

4. You are indeed a rare breed. Thank you.