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| Clinton's Swiss Ally Gave Big Bucks To U.S. Campaigns |
| 2016-02-29 |
| [Daily Caller] Hansjorg Wyss, a billionaire Swiss citizen and multi-million dollar Clinton Foundation donor, gave 30 contributions to American political campaigns over a nine-year period, according to an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Federal law has imposed a strict, across-the-board ban since 1966 on foreign nationals giving to U.S. political campaigns. The ban was later included in the 1974 Federal Election Campaign Act. The only exception is for foreign nationals who possess a green card. The ban applies to all levels of political campaigns. Wyss donated $41,000 to seven congressional candidates and to four national political action committees from 1998 to 2003, according to Federal Election Commission records under the name of Hansjorg Wyss. Colorado campaign finance records also report that Wyss gave $50,000 to Coloradans for Responsible Growth in March 2000, a statewide environmental political action committee that closed its doors only two years later, in part because it reportedly never filed the required financial statements. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Renovations of the Wynkoop brewery lower downtown Denver. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-02-29 08:43 |
| #2 Colorado campaign finance records also report that Wyss gave $50,000 to Coloradans for Responsible Growth in March 2000, a statewide environmental political action committee that closed its doors only two years later, in part because it reportedly never filed the required financial statements. So no one knows where the money ACTUALLY ended up. The follow-up IRS investigation will surely shed some light. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-02-29 07:14 |
| #1 Federal law has imposed a strict, across-the-board ban since 1966 on foreign nationals giving to U.S. political campaigns. The ban was later included in the 1974 Federal Election Campaign Act. The only exception is for foreign nationals who possess a green card. The ban applies to all levels of political campaigns. Expect that 'if' Trump gets the nomination, that will be enforced like the rest of the laws governing illegal immigration. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-02-29 05:05 |