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Trump Gave 10 Times Legal Max To Florida Attorney General
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-donations-charlie-crist_us_57f2e982e4b0703f75909bb3Trump Gave 10 Times Legal Max To Florida Attorney General
Trump violated campaign finance rules on a previously unreported scale, part of a scheme one expert called “secretly buying influence.”
10/03/2016 09:41 pm ET | Updated 53 minutes ago
Christina Wilkie National Political Reporter, The 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.
The donations reveal the previously unknown scale of Trump’s illegal giving to attorneys general in Florida, a state where Trump has a variety of business interests and a long record of legal problems. They also illustrate how far back Trump’s disregard for campaign finance rules extends — to long before 2013, when his charitable foundation made a now-infamous $25,000 donation to the campaign of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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