Trump Gave 10 Times Legal Max To Florida Attorney General

[Stonepounder]

Source: Huffington Post

Donald Trump contributed 10 times as much money as was allowed by law to the 2006 gubernatorial campaign of Florida’s then-Attorney General Charlie Crist, according to a Huffington Post review of state campaign finance records.

The donations that exceeded the limit were all made on the same day through companies Trump owns. Trump did not disclose the connection, and regulators did not identify the gifts as coming from Trump. All told, Trump made nine contributions of $500 to Crist’s campaign on Aug. 25, 2005, for a total of $4,500. At the time, the maximum allowable donation in Florida from an individual or corporation was $500, a sum that Trump had already given Crist’s campaign as a personal donation in June of that year.

HuffPost first identified three of the nine companies last month, and has since identified another six Trump companies that made contributions over the legal limit. “It’s pretty clear in this case that Trump was secretly buying influence without regard to the rules,” said Brendan Fischer, associate counsel at the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center.
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According to Fischer, Trump appears to have committed a number of violations. “One is Trump exceeding the $500 campaign contribution limit,” and possibly doing it multiple times, he said. “Then there’s the possibility that Trump violated disclosure requirements, which exist so that voters can see who is supporting a candidate. And under Florida’s straw donor ban, you can’t use an LLC to evade the contribution and disclosure laws.”

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-donations-charlie-crist_us_57f2e982e4b0703f75909bb3?section=&

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And the Donald's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week keeps on keeping on.

And the hits just keep on coming.

[uppityperson]

1. Oops. K&R

[yardwork]

2. Lock him up.

[geomon666]

3. But Hillary is crooked!

The emails people! THE EMAILS!

[George II]

4. Laws only apply to poor people and Democrats.

[Botany]

5. those were not gifts they were bribes

n/t

[Stonepounder]

6. Oh Snap!

They were looking at the wrong section of the legal code!

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. Yup, he was trying to get casinos in Florida

He talked to Jeb! about it, but denied it. Then he said if he wanted casinos in Florida, he would have gotten them.

[rpannier]

7. Enter Ghouliani

Trump is so categorically fantastic that he counts for ten people
And... what about Clinton's affair?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Again, much more election fraud on Republican side than Democratic side.

Crist was a Republican at the time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Article has been updated. tRump may not have broken law but used a dodge to hide his donations.

Florida defines “person” to include an individual, corporation, association, joint venture or company, so a person and that person’s entities each can contribute $500. Trump’s contributions masked his total giving, but don’t appear to violate state campaign finance laws in effect at the time.

[cynzke]

11. These laws were made for breakin and that's just what he hails.....

One of these days DT is gonna break himself to JAIL!

[Judi Lynn]

12. Why is he never charged for his crirmes? n/t

[jpak]

13. Lock Him Up

yup