Anonymous ID: 5c4ffc Aug. 10, 2018, 1:33 p.m. No.2543736   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3773 >>3803 >>3909 >>4066

Pro-Clinton PAC returns $250,000 from John Fish’s charity

 

A Boston charity headed by Suffolk Construction chief executive John Fish is acknowledging that it made an error in donating $250,000 to a political action committee supporting Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

 

Suffolk Cares Inc., which lists Fish as its president, gave the money in two separate donations in September and October to Correct the Record, a super PAC backing the Democratic nominee. Federal tax rules prohibit charities organized as 501(c)(3) nonprofits such as Suffolk Cares from making political donations.

Anonymous ID: 5c4ffc Aug. 10, 2018, 1:36 p.m. No.2543773   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3803 >>3909 >>4034 >>4066

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Buying of the President

Pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC accepted illegal contributions

Correct the Record says it's returning $250,000 from construction firm's charity

By Dave Levinthal 5:19 pm, October 31, 2016 Updated: 2:37 pm, December 8, 2017

 

Pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Correct the Record accepted $250,000 in illegal contributions from a charity backed by a Boston-based construction firm already in trouble this year for its political donations.

 

Suffolk Cares Inc., a nonprofit charity registered under section 501(c)(3) of federal tax code, gave Correct the Record $100,000 on Sept. 8 and another $150,000 on Oct. 12, according to federal campaign finance documents. Charities of this kind are explicitly prohibited from making political contributions under federal law.

 

Asked about the contributions by the Center for Public Integrity, Correct the Record spokeswoman Elizabeth Shappell said the super PAC is giving the money back to Suffolk Cares Inc. today.

 

"When we learned this donation came from a 501(c)(3), we returned it,” Shappell said.