Pro-Lake PAC didn't fabricate its source of $2.1 million, officials concluded last year

[RandySF]

A campaign finance complaint accusing a super PAC that spent $2.1 million boosting Kari Lake of inventing the source of its funding was quietly dismissed last year after elections officials determined that a media report questioning the money’s origin was inaccurate.

In July 2022, the Arizona Republic reported on the mysterious source of more than $2 million that had been spent on television ads to help Lake win her Republican gubernatorial primary contest against wealthy developer Karrin Taylor Robson.

Campaign finance reports showed the money was given to the Put Arizona First PAC by a company named SPH Medical LLC, which listed its address as a UPS Store in north Phoenix. The Republic could not find any company with that name in Arizona, but did find one in California. Its owner said he never gave the money to the Arizona committee.

“Oh my gosh, no,” Tony Coleman, owner of SPH Medical, told the Republic. “I wouldn’t even spend that on the California governor’s race.”

The news story prompted Public Integrity Alliance President Tyler Montague to file a campaign finance complaint with Secretary of State Katie Hobbs alleging that Put Arizona First had either fabricated SPH Medical LLC or was illegally using a shell company to hide the true source of the money.


https://www.azmirror.com/blog/pro-lake-pac-didnt-fabricate-its-source-of-2-1-million-officials-concluded-last-year/

[Grins]

1. Same thing a few years back.

Calif. proposition on same sex marriage.
BIG donation.

Traced it back to Arizona group that got the money from DC-based PAC’s connected to the Koch brothers.

It got transferred and transferred and transferred so as to forever hide who was buying elections.

It stayed hidden - until the indictments.

[Tetrachloride]

2. I am delighted at the straightforward prose of the first paragraph

of the article.

Paragraphs 2, 3, 4 aren’t good enough for any lawyer that I know.