Thiel-Backed PAC May Have Made Illegal Payments to Bannon Company
Thiel-Backed PAC May Have Made Illegal Payments to Bannon Company
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/09/thiel-backed-pac-may-have-made-illegal-payments-bannon-company.html
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New Federal Elections Commission filings show that a pro-Trump super PAC funded in part by Peter Thiel paid more than $134,000 to a company helmed by Steve Bannon in the final weeks of the presidential campaigna set-up the watchdog group Campaign Legal Center says may have been illegal.
The super PAC, called Make America Number 1, is bankrolled largely by Robert Mercer, a New York hedge-fund billionaire with a very low public profile. His daughter Rebekah has quickly become one of the conservative movements most powerful financial backers; shes on the board of the Heritage Foundation and the Manhattan Institute, and helps fund a host of right-wing media projects. She is also a close and longtime associate of Bannon, who is now one of Trumps top White House advisers.
Mercer is also one of the 16 members of the Trump transition teams executive committee. And a GOP fundraising source told Politico that it would be difficult to overstate Rebekahs influence in Trump world right now.
The Daily Beast reported in November that Glittering Steel, a film company with virtually no online presence, is essentially a front for Bannon. We also reported that watchdogs say the payments the Make America Number 1 super PAC made to Bannons group could have violated campaign-finance rules, potentially by paying Bannons salary so the campaign wouldnt have to. The new filings show that the super PAC was paying Bannons company all the way up through Election Day.
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