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Showing Original Post only (View all)Remember the millions Jill Stein raised to pay for RECOUNTS? Here's where it REALLY went. [View all]
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jill-steins-recount-cash-pays-for-her-russia-legal-defense?via=twitter_pageMoney that Jill Stein raised to recount votes in 2016 swing states is being used by her campaign to pay for legal bills stemming from the investigation of Russian interference in the last presidential election.
In June, The Daily Beast reported that the the U.S. Green Party candidates campaign, which raised $7.3 million for recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, had in 2017 stopped disclosing its monthly spending with the Federal Election Commission. Later that month, the Jill Stein for President committee filed a slew of reports that reveal spending on lawyers who are not trying to get inside any voting machines.
At the end of May 2018, according to the most recent FEC filing, the Stein campaign paid the Partnership for Civil Justice $66,441.60; that is on top of a $31,536 payment made in January, and more than the Stein campaign had in cash on hand by November 2016.
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund is a nonprofit law firm whose mission is to defend and advance fundamental civil, constitutional and human rights, per a 2016 IRS filing. On its website, the group notes that it is representing Stein in her dealings before the the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
In May 2018, the Stein campaign also paid $9,325 in attorney fees to Miller & Chevalier. In August 2017, Politico described it as a boutique firm in Washington that had taken on the case of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman. Manafort, accused of by special counsel Robert Mueller of money laundering, is currently in jail.
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Remember the millions Jill Stein raised to pay for RECOUNTS? Here's where it REALLY went. [View all]
pnwmom
Dec 2018
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The Green Party is a fraud, and it speaks volumes about folks like Susan Sarandon and Cornel West
still_one
Dec 2018
#39
Why can't she be charged &/or sued for fraud? ANYONE else I've ever heard of who pulled
The_REAL_Ecumenist
Dec 2018
#18
The scam is that the RETHUGS rigged the election and did everything to obstruct recounts
diva77
Dec 2018
#34
Stein helped the Russians in my opinion...she is a traitor and I despise her...hope she
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#55
and it's too bad that Clinton conceded. There is evidence of rampant election fraud
diva77
Dec 2018
#49
She couldn't have changed the results and she knew it. Michigan had a Rethug governor
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#63
And if she ran again she would get millions of votes. The reason why is why we may not survive
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2018
#51
There was never going to be any proof...as for initiating recounts. She scammed people and took
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#56
No, that isn't the real question, or any question. Hillary understood the recount process
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#59