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Corruption: Trump Gave 10 Times The Personal Max To Florida Attorney General
Trump’s donations are part of what one expert called “secretly buying influence.”I call it a trend of Trump buying off Attorney Generals not to prosecute. Bribery!
Donald Trump gave 10 times as much money as the law appears to allow individuals to contribute 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 individual 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.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-donations-charlie-crist_us_57f2e982e4b0703f75909bb3?section=&