No freaking way!
Trolled Loomer and affiliates so big
Epoch
Friends of Matt GAETZ PAC under investigation!
https://campaignlegal.org/press-releases/new-campaign-legal-center-files-fec-complaint-against-matt-gaetzs-campaign-over
NEW: Campaign Legal Center Files FEC Complaint Against Matt Gaetz’s Campaign Over Misreported Payments
DATE NOVEMBER 22, 2024
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CAMPAIGN FINANCE
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), over reports that the ‘Friends of Matt Gaetz’ campaign committee misreported over $1.2 million in payments to Stripe, a payment processing vendor. This is concerning because the magnitude of these payments appears to indicate that the recipients or purposes for these expenditures were possibly misreported, denying voters accurate information about how the campaign was spending its money.
All federal campaigns and committees are required by law to file accurate and complete reports on how much money they spend, the purpose of these expenses, and the recipients of these expenditures.
Based on Stripe’s fee structures for processing online contributions, the Gaetz campaign should not have paid more than $97,000 for Stripe to process its itemized contributions during the 2024 election cycle — yet it paid Stripe twelve times that amount, a substantial difference that strongly suggests an error in the campaign’s reporting.
If the Gaetz campaign’s reports are accurate, one out of every six dollars it spent would have gone towards these “e-merchant fees” — which would be extraordinary. The campaign’s $1.2 million in payments to Stripe also far exceeds the amount paid to Stripe by any other political committee this election cycle. In fact, major national fundraising operations like the Harris Victory Fund and the Republican National Committee, each of which raised hundreds of millions of dollars from donors across the country, reported paying far less to Stripe than Gaetz’s campaign—which raised a little over $6 million this cycle.
“Voters have a right to know how campaigns are spending their money,” said Saurav Ghosh, director of federal campaign finance reform at Campaign Legal Center (CLC). “It appears that this spending by former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s campaign was not reported accurately, which would be a clear violation of the law. The FEC should immediately investigate the true nature of the $1.2 million in payments that ‘Friends of Matt Gaetz’ reported making to the vendor Stripe.”
When candidates or committees fail to provide complete and accurate reporting on their expenditures, voters are deprived of critical information they need on how candidates are spending their campaign funds, undermining transparency and accountability.
The FEC has previously issued major financial penalties to political committees that have failed to provide the agency with accurate and complete information on their expenditures. The FEC must investigate the true nature of the Gaetz campaign’s expenditures during the 2024 cycle and hold this campaign committee accountable for any wrongdoing.
Torba is in bed with Falun Gong Cult via Epoch Times Media and Association, Epoch Media, New Tang Dynasty TV
Epoch Times is the 7th largest account on GAB!
The Epoch Times was founded in 2000 by John Tang and other Chinese Americans affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement.[12] Tang was a graduate student in Georgia at the time; he began the newspaper in his basement.
The Epoch Times frequently runs stories promoting other Falun Gong–affiliated groups, such as the performing arts company Shen Yun.[19][22][23] The Epoch Media Group's news sites and YouTube channels have promoted conspiracy theories such as QAnon, the Great Replacement, anti-vaccine misinformation and false claims of fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election.[30] In June 2024, allegations of money laundering were leveled at Bill Guan, the group's chief financial officer.[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times
DOJ Says Epoch Times Newspaper Is an Epic Money-Laundering Operation
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/doj-says-epoch-times-is-an-epic-money-laundering-operation.html
Remember Kash Patel pushing patriot.us
Money laundering
From at least in or about 2020, through in or about May 2024, GUAN, while working as the Chief Financial Officer of a multinational media company headquartered in New York, New York (the “Media Company”), conspired with others to participate in a sprawling, transnational scheme to launder at least approximately $67 million of illegally obtained funds to bank accounts in the names of the Media Company and related entities (together, with the Media Company, the “Media Entities”). In furtherance of the money laundering conspiracy, GUAN managed, among other teams, the Media Company’s “Make Money Online” team (the “MMO Team”), which was located in a particular foreign office of the Media Company. Under GUAN’s management, members of the MMO Team and others used cryptocurrency to knowingly purchase tens of millions of dollars in crime proceeds, including proceeds of fraudulently obtained unemployment insurance benefits, that had been loaded onto tens of thousands of prepaid debit cards. The crime proceeds were generally purchased by the scheme participants, including members of the MMO Team and others working with them, using a particular cryptocurrency platform, at discounted rates of approximately 70 to 80 cents per dollar, and in exchange for cryptocurrency.
Once the crime proceeds were purchased, the MMO Team and other participants in the scheme used stolen personal identification information to open accounts, including prepaid debit card accounts, cryptocurrency accounts, and bank accounts, that were used to transfer the crime proceeds into bank accounts associated with the Media Entities. After the crime proceeds reached those bank accounts, they were often further laundered through other bank accounts held by the Media Entities, GUAN’s personal bank accounts, and through GUAN’s personal cryptocurrency accounts.
In or around the same time the money laundering scheme began, the Media Company’s internal financial accounting reflected an increased annual revenue over the previous year of approximately 410%—from approximately $15 million to approximately $62 million. When banks asked GUAN about the increase in transactions entering the bank accounts of the Media Entities, GUAN lied, including to two U.S.-based banks, and claimed that the increase in funds came from donations. However, in 2022, GUAN wrote a letter addressed to a congressional office falsely stating “donations” constitute “an insignificant portion of the overall revenue” of the Media Company.
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GUAN, 61, of Secaucus, New Jersey, is charged with one count of conspiring to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and two counts of bank fraud, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. The charges do not relate to the Media Company’s newsgathering activities.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/chief-financial-officer-multinational-media-company-charged-participating-scheme
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-loyalist-kash-patels-tax-exempt-charity-raises/story?id=97657747
Do you remember paytriot.us promoted by Kash on Truth Social?
He’s a Mimi Me of Flynn!
Snake!