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Feds Flag Thousands of Illegal Bernie Sanders Contributions
« on: February 26, 2016, 10:17:27 pm »
http://freebeacon.com/politics/feds-flag-thousands-of-illegal-bernie-sanders-contributions/

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Thousands of contributions to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ campaign in January violated federal campaign finance laws, election regulators said on Thursday.

The Federal Election Commission sent a letter to the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign committee on Thursday with a 90-page spreadsheet listing 3,457 “excessive, prohibited, and impermissible contributions.”

The campaign’s January financial disclosure filing listed contributions from foreign nationals and unregistered political committees, the FEC said. Other contributions came from donors who exceeded the $2,700 per-election limit.

“Although the Commission may take further legal action concerning the acceptance of [excessive or prohibited] contributions, your prompt action to refund the prohibited amount will be taken into consideration,” the FEC told the campaign.

Sanders’ campaign has relied on small-dollar individual contributions to a far greater extent than


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Re: Feds Flag Thousands of Illegal Bernie Sanders Contributions
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2016, 10:20:40 pm »
Bernie Bernie Bernie.  You have got to follow the Clinton model for taking Foreign influence money....start a FOUNDATION to funnel it thu.

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Re: Feds Flag Thousands of Illegal Bernie Sanders Contributions
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2016, 11:14:34 pm »
Bernie Bernie Bernie.  You have got to follow the Clinton model for taking Foreign influence money....start a FOUNDATION to funnel it thu.
Exactly. You can't just get it directly from Cuba or North Korea.
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Re: Feds Flag Thousands of Illegal Bernie Sanders Contributions
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2016, 04:20:37 am »
Companion thread: "Australians say they were paid by Labor Party to work for Sanders"
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,196420.msg794516.html#msg794516

There's no surprise a far Left candidate would pay little or no attention to rules and regulations, but Bernie has presented himself as above that sort of thing.

I wonder if any of this will get media play, or if Hillary will bring it up when Bernie starts attacking her for her connections with Wall St.
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