Bernie's Growing Troubles with Illegal and Foreign Contributions

[JaneyVee]

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In February, the Federal Election Commission sent the Sanders campaign two letters breaking down the campaign's possible illegal and foreign contributions. Both letters - one addressing the campaign's quarterly report for the quarter ending in December and another addressing the campaign's January report point out two overriding themes in Sanders' campaign finance trouble besides for the fact that they don't seem to be able to add (in both letters, FEC noted the Sanders' campaign's problem balancing the ledger): illegal over-contributions and donations from foreign addresses not properly accounted for to confirm their US citizenship.

Bernie's campaign line has been to dismiss these concerns. So many people are donating to us, they say, it's mighty hard to keep the books straight on all of them.

But as the deadline for the Sanders campaign to respond to its first FEC notice nears on March 17, that explanation is woefully inadequate. As more and more states vote, voters deserve to know, definitively, whether Bernie Sanders is accepting illegal campaign donations from foreign nationals, and just what is keeping them from implementing a technologically simple check on who's donating how much money.

Since October of 2015 to the end of January, the FEC counted a total of 665 potentially illegal foreign donations to the Sanders campaign, and hundreds of donors who have exceeded their contribution limits. The FEC noted more foreign contributions in just the month of January than in the previous three months combined, and has flagged over 3,500 contributions as over-limit. Through the end of December alone, the Sanders campaign had collected more than $23 million in donations without sourcing them or certifying that those came from donors whose aggregate total giving is below $200.

The rest: http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/14/bernie-sanders-potentially-illegal-campaign-contributions

Looks like today is the FEC deadline.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Gee now that you all are crowing about how your candidate has won

perhaps you could stop with the daily horseshit?

[JaneyVee]

3. FEC violations in a campaign advocating campaign finance transparency...

Oh the irony.

[think]

2. So out of millions of donations Bernie has 3500 that may have accidentally donated too much

Meanwhile corporations that actively violate US laws can donate millions to Hillary's super pac.

Cry me a river.....

[Ghost Dog]

4. ... Corporations... with shareholders all over the world...

... A $200 limit on individual contributions, to be from US cits only? Hmmm.

(And this in a polity that recently (Shrub-Cheney) openly asserted that it is and or intends to be an Empire)...

Wow, just wow.

[HERVEPA]

5. This tired old shit. Give it a rest. Your person is going to win.

What friggin purpose do you think you are serving other than alienating Bernie supporters you need to vote for Clinton in the general. Use common sense.

[Lucinda]

6. I don't understand why there wasn't a system in place to check these before the

donations were accepted. I assume software exists to track this stuff....?

[NurseJackie]

8. I'm willing to conceded that they were caught off-guard and were initially unprepared, BUT ...

... after a certain amount of time, it would have been clear that they needed to do SOMETHING. So, I'm left wondering, why DIDN'T they address the problem sooner? Did someone believe that it would just solve itself? Did someone believe that following the rules wasn't a big deal? Did someone assume that it would be overlooked by regulators?

It's impossible to know what anyone was thinking, but it's clear to me that they didn't give it the attention that it deserved.

[Lucinda]

10. Maybe they just didnt want to spend the money for the programs once they realized

it was getting out of hand. I know how hard it can be to put the genie back in the bottle though.
I don't think they had any clue how big this was going to get. So I agree, I can see how it happened, but still...

[KPN]

7. Lol! I'm quite sure

Hillary is leading him in this as well.

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. "possible". "potentially". If you'd have put those two words in your subject line this post would

sink like a rock.

I can see why you left them out.

[msanthrope]

11. foreign contributions are illegal. there's no maybes on that one. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

15. Yeah except for the maybes in the article.

[msanthrope]

16. Hopefully, Bernie's campaign will resolve this. nt

[surrealAmerican]

18. ... unless they come from US citizens.

Given his large majority in the primary from "Americans abroad", this is a distinct possibility.

[NWCorona]

12. It's funny that this is a huge deal to some

But they have zero problems with Hillary's FBI problem.

[whatchamacallit]

13. OMG thepeoplesview.net!

Bottom of the barrel.

[Wilms]

14. Spam Dan and the "People's" View.

I mean, if you got a reliable source, let's discuss the issue.

[Jitter65]

17. If this were Hillary it would be all over the cable news and Newspapers. And she would be labeled

guilty no matter what the explanation.