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Not a Single Human Being Donated to Embattled Rep. Chris Collins' Campaign
The congressman raised just $5,000 during the first quarter of 2019 as he deals with insider trading charges.
Lachlan Markay
04.16.19 3:41 PM ET
Not a single human being donated to Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) reelection campaign in the first three months of 2019.
Collins, who is facing federal securities fraud charges, brought in just $5,000 in the first quarter of the year, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission this week. Thats compared to the roughly $280,000 he raised in the same period during the 2018 election cycle. And this time around, none of the money came from individual contributors.
The funds Collins received came from two political action committees representing moderate, business-friendly Republicansthe Tuesday Group PAC and the Republican Main Street Partnership (RMSP)and from the campaign committee of a former colleague, Dan Donovan, a Staten Island Republican who lost his House reelection bid last year.
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Collins was arrested in August and charged with 10 criminal counts, including securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, making false statements to the FBI. Federal prosecutors say Collins used his position on the board of a pharmaceutical company to glean information about its upcoming failure in a key drug trial, and shared that information with his son, who subsequently sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock in the company.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-chris-collins-campaign-did-not-receive-a-donation-from-a-human-being-this-cycle?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
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Not a Single Human Being Donated to Embattled Rep. Chris Collins' Campaign (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Apr 2019
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hatrack
(59,583 posts)1. Womp Womp!!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. Awww, so sad.
eppur_se_muova
(36,256 posts)3. Any help from nonhumans ?
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