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Against the Rules with Michael Lewis cover image

On Background: The Political Spender America Deserves

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

CHAPTER

The DOJ's Guide to Campaign Finance Contributions

He wanted to be seen just as the Democrat guy, but he was doing these hidden dark money donations to hide that was coming from him. He would have gotten away with it hypothetically pretty easily. But how often do donors go to jail for how they've given the money? Very rarely,. It's not something the DOJ tends to bring just on its own.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, it's definitely not something we see every
Speaker 2
day. Yeah, right.
Speaker 1
So he in an interview talked about how while he'd given 30 some odd million to Democrats, he gave pretty much the same thing through dark money donations to Republicans to hide that he was giving Democrats and Republicans. He wanted to be seen just as the Democrat guy, but he was doing these hidden dark money donations to hide that was coming from him. And the two rules again are that you can't do it explicitly tab for the politics and you can't do it to hide that it came from you. And he just went out and said that, yeah, I did both of those things. So
Speaker 2
his crime is confessing it.
Speaker 1
I think the crime is doing it. But yes, he would have gotten away with it hypothetically pretty easily. I mean, there's a decent chance that it could come out in the course for prosecution as we see where money went. But yeah, essentially we would have not known about this kind of thing if he did not say it to the press that he was doing it.
Speaker 2
How often do people go to jail for campaign finance contributions, not taking campaign finance money and using it for other purposes? But how often do donors go to jail for how they've given the
Speaker 1
money? Very rarely, it's not something the DOJ tends to bring just on
Speaker 2
its own.

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