Trump's lawyer in Mueller probe, John Dowd, cited for Trump campaign contribution above the legal..

[DonViejo]

Source: CNBC




Trump's lawyer in Mueller probe, John Dowd, cited for Trump campaign contribution above the legal max

President Donald Trump's lawyer, John Dowd, contributed more money last year to the president's re-election campaign than is legally permissible.

A March letter from the Federal Election Commission to the Trump campaign listed Dowd as one of 108 donors who gave more than the the individual maximum in the third quarter of 2017.

The Trump campaign said it issued Dowd a refund earlier this year.

Christina Wilkie | @christinawilkie
Published 1 Hour Ago

President Donald Trump's personal lawyer in the Russia probe, John Dowd, contributed more money last year to the president's re-election campaign than is legally permissible, according to a recent letter from the Federal Election Commission to the Trump campaign.

Dowd is Trump's lead counsel, charged with crafting the president's response to the special counsel's investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election. A veteran white-collar defense attorney and a politically active Republican, Dowd's understanding of how Washington works has made him a key member of the president's legal team.

But a March 8 letter from the FEC to Bradley Crate, the Trump campaign treasurer, put the campaign on notice that there were 108 donors who had made "excessive, prohibited and impermissible" contributions to the Trump campaign in the last quarter of 2017. Dowd's name appeared on this list, below. The X is for donations that require additional details.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/trump-lawyer-dowd-cited-for-trump-campaign-contribution-above-legal-max.html

[liberal N proud]

1. Has there ever been a more corrupt group?

[George II]

5. This is only one letter with 108, I wonder how many other letters they received? This only...

...made the news because it's trump's attorney. I'm sure there were other impermissible contributions.

There actually was a Presidential candidate committee that received seven such letters totaling more than 3000 pages of questionable, impermissible, and illegal contributions.

At an average of 30 lines per page, that's quite a huge number.

[rzemanfl]

2. Grifters gotta grift. Where's the tar and feathers? Oh, and a rail. n/t

[TomSlick]

6. Riding the rail.

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[hedda_foil]

3. That's no big deal. He was $300 over and it happens all the time on both sides. The extra is refunde

[George II]

4. Sloppy treasurer. It's unacceptable.

[Roland99]

7. John Edwards narrowly avoided prison for a similar offense

[McCamy Taylor]

8. Only corporations have unlimited free speech rights.