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On Background: The Political Spender America Deserves
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
The Importance of Disclosure in Political Donations
Since 2010, if I want to go try to buy a Senate seat for someone without any letting anybody know without anybody be able to see my money, I give it to you dark money group with a wink and a nod. And nobody will know where your money came from. The 501c4 group needs to disclose its donors to the IRS. But there's not a, there's not that overlap between the IRS and the FEC. Because you're just writing this check for general purposes, you're in the clear. It gets even more of an issue in that to make a political donation, you can't be a foreign national writing a check from another country but a dark money group can take
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