“President Donald Trump’s campaign is violating federal election law by funneling close to a quarter-billion dollars to date through private companies in order to hide the ultimate recipients of the money, including the wife of one of his sons and the girlfriend of another, a watchdog group charged in a complaint filed Tuesday” HuffPost reports.
“‘The money is being laundered through corporations run by top Trump campaign officials,’ said Brendan Fischer, a lawyer with the Campaign Legal Center. ‘That has the effect of keeping the public in the dark as to a big chunk of Trump campaign spending.'”
“The group’s complaint with the Federal Election Commission asks for an investigation to put an end to the practice and to punish the campaign with fines.”