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Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

FEC Republicans block efforts to investigate NRA’s financial ties to Russia

Author:     CASEY MICHEL
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     AUG 20, 2019, 3:10 PM
 Link: FEC Republicans block efforts to investigate NRA’s financial ties to Russia
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Late last week, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) deadlocked on whether to pursue an investigation into potential Russian financing of the National Rifle Association (NRA). The split 2-2 vote fell along partisan lines, with the FEC’s two Republicans voting against any further inquiry into whether Alexander Torshin, a sanctioned Russian official, and Maria Butina, a convicted Russian agent, grew close to the NRA in order to help direct the group’s 2016 political donations.

FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub castigated her Republican colleagues in an open letter, issued immediately after the vote.

In the letter, Weintraub noted that the NRA not only admitted that it had received previous donations from unidentified Russian nationals, but that the NRA likewise saw a substantial spike in its own political donations in 2016, issuing nearly $35 million more in political donations in 2016 than in the previous presidential election. The NRA admittedthat Butina had once paid nearly $570 […]

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1 Comment

  1. g f on Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 7:53 am

    Again a Democratic media outlet attempting to blame Russia for the failures of the Dems to stand up to the Republicans for the last 40 plus years.

    Total fraud.

    Stand up to them, quit being such cowards.
    Stop deflecting.

    But of course not, they have the same goals.

    Make the rich richer at everyone else’s expense.