Trump, GOP paying consultant dogged by voter fraud charges

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee have paid at least $1.8 million to a political operative whose roster of companies include several that have been repeatedly investigated for voter registration fraud, even as Trump has complained that the election is rigged against him.

Three employees of Strategic Allied Consulting, a firm owned by conservative operative Nathan Sproul, pleaded guilty in Florida four years ago to felony charges related to altering and destroying scores of voter registration forms. There were no formal actions against the firm.

Yet recent federal campaign finance reports reviewed by The Associated Press show Sproul is now back on the RNC's payroll, this time with a firm named Lincoln Strategy Group. That's a renamed version of his former firm Sproul & Associates, an Arizona-based company that was investigated for alleged voter registration misconduct in Nevada and Oregon.

Although Sproul was never charged in the 2012 Florida case, GOP officials and Mitt Romney's presidential campaign considered the charges against his employees alone serious enough to fire his company in 2012. The chairman of the RNC said this week he didn't know Sproul's firm has been rehired. Neither the Republican Party nor the Trump campaign would discuss the specifics of the work Sproul or the firm is doing and in what states.


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[jmowreader]

1. I'm a little surprised

Not that Trump would hire such a firm, but that he's paying them.

[Scarsdale]

3. tRump paying?

I wonder if the company cashed the check yet?.

[Mc Mike]

2. I've been wondering when we were going to hear what Sproul and his little crew of

repuglinazi felons were up to. Thanks, Tex.

No doubt we'll see exactly what his people have done, after the election.

He should have been imprisoned in '04, but he backed the 'winning' law and order party candidate for prez.

Funny how much time they spend talking about law and law enforcement and how they hate crime and rigged elections.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Somebody better find what these Sprouls are up to fast

Trump has told us it's a rigged election and you know how he projects

[Coyotl]

8. Are they the spoilers in Indiana, submitting false registrations so police could crack down?

[keithbvadu2]

11. Trump refuses to pay hard working Americans but pays these slimeballs.

[kimbutgar]

12. It seems Cheeto has brought out the worst campaign operatives despicable frrom the past

The Whos who of is the worst in campaign operatives. Each awful campaign operatives out from under rocks, turd patties and roof rat nests.