Exclusive: Firm top McCain aide 'quit' was paid $90,000 by campaign (RawStory)

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Exclusive: Firm top McCain aide 'quit'
was paid $90,000 by campaign

Firm top McCain aide 'quit' was paid $90K by campaign
Nick Juliano
Published: Thursday September 25, 2008


John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis supposedly severed all ties with his consulting firm in 2006 before signing on to assist in the Arizona Senator's bid for the White House. And the GOP presidential campaign has become increasingly adamant this week that Davis has had nothing to do with the firm he founded for the last two years.

So why does it look like McCain's own campaign paid Davis's firm in lieu of putting him directly on their payroll?

The campaign paid Davis Manafort Inc. at least $90,000 during the first six months of last year, while Davis was serving as CEO for the campaign. Five payments were made for "communications consulting" in increments of $10,000 to $40,000, according to a Raw Story review of campaign finance records maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The payments stopped in July 2007, when Davis and some other top McCain aides reportedly began working for free, as McCain's campaign struggled to raise money. Davis himself never received a personal salary from the campaign, although he reportedly earned $20,000 per month from the campaign.


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