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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRNC's highest-paid vendor of the 2020 election: A mystery company formed nine months ago
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/04/rncs-highest-paid-vendor-of-the-2020-election-a-mystery-company-formed-nine-months-ago/In August, Salon reported that the Republican National Committee (RNC) had paid about $5 million to a mystery marketing services company called Digital Consulting Group LLC, starting with a $2 million expenditure in February, just a month after the company was formed.
Now, filings with the Federal Election Commission show that the RNC paid Digital Consulting Group more than $42 million for media buys, consulting and marketing between February and October. The company went from nonexistent to being the Republican Party's highest-paid vendor of the 2020 election, all in the space of eight months.
But Digital Consulting Group presents a mystery. No other political campaign or committee has reported any payments at all to the company. While a number of organizations share the name, this particular Digital Consulting Group a Delaware company founded Jan. 15, 2020 does not appear to have a website, and a Delaware business entity search does not reveal an owner or location. The RNC's spending reports list a virtual address in Wilmington, but beyond that the company cannot be traced.
That $42 million in expenditures makes this anonymous company the RNC's highest-paid vendor of the last two years, pulling in nearly $3.5 million more than the next-largest vendor, the direct-mail firm Communications Corporation of America (CCA), and topping third-place JDB Marketing, another direct mail provider, by about $19 million.
For further perspective, Digital Consulting Group received four out of the five largest payments that the RNC doled out between 2019 and 2020, including a flat $6 million on Oct. 7 for an unspecified media buy. In fact, it has received three of the 10 largest payments that the RNC has ever made all to a company that was evidently constructed to conceal is origins and prevent the public from knowing anything about it.
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RNC's highest-paid vendor of the 2020 election: A mystery company formed nine months ago (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Dec 2020
OP
Establishing a "consulting" company is a way to evade many campaign finance restrictions. n/t
PoliticAverse
Dec 2020
#3
If trump hears about this.... Hey, Ivanka - is that you? Junior? Jared? Where's my kickback?
erronis
Dec 2020
#9
check republican senator's offshore accounts- mcconnell and graham to start.
MerryBlooms
Dec 2020
#13
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)1. Grifters are gonna grift. K&R. n/t
Miguelito Loveless
(4,466 posts)2. Money 💰 laundering
rurallib
(62,432 posts)10. The delightful smell of laundered money in the morning
Donny Trump's favorite smell
crickets
(25,981 posts)11. Spring fresh, clean and crisp. nt
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)3. Establishing a "consulting" company is a way to evade many campaign finance restrictions. n/t
JDC
(10,130 posts)5. Smells just like a Trump crime family shell co
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)6. Trump scam company. Money went right into the Pig's pocket.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)7. Smdh
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)8. Isn't Ivanka a Consultant?
Maybe she knows.
If the IRS wasn't neutered maybe this would be sniffed out.
erronis
(15,314 posts)9. If trump hears about this.... Hey, Ivanka - is that you? Junior? Jared? Where's my kickback?
You children better not get the don mad. He may have a hissy-fit. Disown you from the billions he doesn't have.
MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)13. check republican senator's offshore accounts- mcconnell and graham to start.