‘Ol predictable Biden…
According to a report from The Washington Free Beacon, one of President Biden’s favorite Super PACs, Future Forward, which is also led by former Obama staffers, has raised $400 million dollars in the past five years to support Joe Biden’s re-election bid.
But the largest donor to the PAC is raising eyebrows…
Reporting from the WFB reveals that Future Forward USA Action is Future Forward’s largest donor —and is a nonprofit and therefore not required to publicly disclose its donors.
“Should a donor direct the nonprofit to transfer their donation to Future Forward, however, the super PAC must reveal the donor’s identity in federal campaign finance disclosures,” WFB reports. “Future Forward USA Action in its 2021 tax filings acknowledged that it “promptly and directly delivered” $3.4 million in donations to Future Forward—a designation that would require the super PAC to reveal donor identities, according to former Federal Election Commission chairman Bradley Smith. However, Future Forward declined to disclose who contributed the cash.”
This, according to Republican election lawyer Charlie Spies, is a violation of federal election law.
“Future Forward USA Action admitted to making over $3 million in earmarked political contributions, where they apparently obscured the true super PAC donor’s identity by routing the money through the nonprofit,” Spies told the WFB. “The U.S. DOJ has sent people to prison for this sort of illegal activity, and the FEC has imposed major fines on conservative organizations accused of less blatant earmarking.”
“Future Forward’s latest FEC filing, meanwhile, suggests the super PAC has continued to use its dark money affiliate as a vehicle to obscure its donors from the public,” WFB reports. “The super PAC in public filings claims it raised just $67,000 in the first half of 2023. But weeks earlier, it told the New York Times it had raised $50 million during that time, indicating that the overwhelming majority of those funds flowed through Future Forward USA Action.”
“It looks like Biden’s preferred Future Forward super PAC is violating the FEC’s donor disclosure laws by laundering dark money donations through its related Future Forward USA Action nonprofit,” Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center watchdog group, told the Free Beacon.
Will Biden’s politicized and weaponized DOJ bring this to the desk of the President? Doubtful
