Legal Complaints
Corruption

CREW files Trump Foundation complaint with IRS

CREW filed a complaint with the IRS stating that the Donald J. Trump Foundation appears to have illegally given $25,000 to a political organization associated with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi while her office was reportedly considering joining a lawsuit involving Trump University and failed to disclose the contribution in its taxes.
Legal Complaints
Money in Politics

CREW files second supplement to NRA complaint with the IRS

CREW filed a second supplement to its original complaint against the National Rifle Association (NRA), in which it showed that the NRA failed to disclose more than $1 million in contributions to major Democratic and Republican leadership groups, bringing their total undisclosed political spending to nearly $60 million since 2008.
Legal Complaints
Money in Politics

CREW files Rubio and Fulop PAC complaints with FEC

CREW filed two complaints with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against the Marco Rubio-backing Conservative Solutions PAC, the Steven Fulop-backing Coalition for Progress, as well as IGX LLC and DE First Holdings, two sham companies used to launder donations to the super PACs. 
Legal Complaints
Money in Politics

Complaint: Ernst-backing Koch group broke the law

Trees of Liberty, a dark money non-profit financed and operated by the Koch political network, broke the law in helping Joni Ernst win her primary election in 2014, according to a complaint filed today with the IRS by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and CREW.
Legal Complaints
Money in Politics

NRA again leaves out millions in political spending on tax forms

After failing to disclose $33.5 million in political activity from 2008 to 2013, the NRA failed to disclose another $25 million in political spending to the IRS in 2014, according to a supplemented complaint filed by CREW today. 
Legal Complaints
Corruption

CREW files ethics complaint against Marco Rubio

The Senate Ethics Committee should investigate whether Sen. Marco Rubio violated Senate rules by converting campaign funds to personal funds, CREW requested in a complaint filed today.
Legal Complaints
Money in Politics

CREW files complaint against Bush super PAC, spies and donors

Right to Rise USA, the main super PAC supporting Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign, accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal donations, constituting multiple law violations, according to a complaint filed today by CREW.
Legal Complaints
Money in Politics

CREW files CHGO complaint with district attorney

CREW filed a complaint with the District Attorney's office for the District of Columbia to investigate whether  Reed, Berman,  Canfield, officers, vendors, and/or consultants for CHGO violated federal law by making false statements to the FEC and the IRS and by obstructing an FEC investigation
Legal Complaints
Money in Politics

More evidence of Rubio group illegal activity

CREW filed a supplement today to its IRS complaint against the Conservative Solutions Project (CSP), shining a light on even more evidence that the so-called “social welfare” organization is in fact illegally operating to primarily benefit Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. 
Legal Complaints
Money in Politics

CREW files complaint against Rubio, Tillis groups

In order to fight a new form of dark money organization, CREW today filed complaints against political groups posing as non-profit social welfare organizations but existing only to benefit the presidential campaign of Marco Rubio and the senate campaign of Thom Tillis.
Legal Complaints
Money in Politics

CREW files IRS complaint against Michigan Advocacy Trust

CREW today filed a complaint with the IRS urging the agency to investigate a secretive Michigan political organization called Michigan Advocacy Trust (MAT) for spending millions of dollars on political ads without disclosing its donors. 

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