Anonymous ID: 3bff26 April 30, 2018, 9:19 a.m. No.1248463   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Thornton LawFirm ran a straw-donation service for congress critters (Dems, in pic, And Graham).

 

They skated.

 

From Wikipedia:

 

In 2016, several news stories reported that Graham was the only Republican to receive political contributions from the Boston-based trial lawyer firm, Thornton Law Firm.[140][141] The Thornton Law Firm is nationally known for its expertise in asbestos-related litigation. Over a ten-year period, Graham receives $62,800 in campaign contributions from the firm’s partners. In 2006, the firm was opposed to a congressional bill that would have shifted asbestos cases from courts to a trust fund-based system. According to The Boston Globe, Graham "helped peel away enough GOP support in the Senate to ensure the trust funds bill’s death on Valentine’s Day 2006."[142]

 

The Boston Globe ran a multi-part investigative report on contributions made from the firm’s partners. The report found that the firm, in almost every case, would reimburse partners’ political contributions—in the exact amount[141]—within 10 days of the contributions being made. Between 2010 and 2014, the firm’s partners and one of their wives contributed $1.6 million to politicians; $1.4 million was given back to the partners from the firm[140]. The firm told reporters that according to outside consultants the practice was not unlawful because the checks are not bonuses, instead coming out of the partners’ firm equity accounts.[141]

Anonymous ID: 3bff26 April 30, 2018, 9:22 a.m. No.1248505   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Wiki:

 

After it appeared certain that Donald Trump would become the Republican candidate for President in May 2016, Graham announced that he would not vote for either Trump or Hillary Clinton, commenting: "I think Donald Trump is going to places where very few people have gone and I'm not going with him."