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Major fuckery afoot in AZ, funny how Arpaio was on to them…
The Arizona Democratic Party took $40,000 from the two men last year, three months before they faced their first criminal charges in California.
Asked if the party intended to keep the $40,000, a spokesman, Enrique Gutiérrez, said the money had already been spent.
The Frontera Fund, which the two men started in 2014, says it has donated money to 22 charities listed on its website, most of which support immigrants' rights.
In 2007, then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio had both men arrested; they were accused of revealing grand-jury information. They sued the county over the arrests. The $3.75 million settlement created the groundwork to launch the fund.
All told, the two men have made federal and state political contributions of $162,200 since 2013 — $60,200 of that to Arizona politicians and political committees, and $10,600 of that to
U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema in 2013 and 2016,
according to an analysis of state and federal campaign-finance records. She was the biggest individual beneficiary of their donations in Arizona.
https://
www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2017/04/14/allegations-increase-against-backpage-founders-have-become-big-political-donors-arizona/100421528/