The FEC says Jill Stein owes $66,000 for campaign finance violations
The FEC says Jill Stein, who raised $7.3 million to recount the 2016 election, owes them more than $66,000 for campaign finance violations
The Green Party's Jill Stein raised millions of dollars to recount the 2016 US presidential election, promising her donors — mostly liberals grappling with Donald Trump's shock win in the Electoral College — radical transparency and direct democracy.
But instead of verifying the outcome of the last presidential election, a majority of the $7.3 million that Stein raised for counting votes has, per a review of of her campaign's financial disclosures, been spent on other things.
It went to salaries for her core campaign staff, who were kept on for another three years, lawyers for Stein's personal legal defense in the US Senate's Russia investigation, and tens of thousands of dollars in fines levied by the Federal Election Commission.
The Stein campaign is now out of money, still owing tens of thousands of dollars to the FEC for failing to disclose how it was spending donations, mandatory reports sometimes filed over a year late. That means an oft-repeated campaign promise will not be fulfilled: a ranked-choice vote for donors on how to spend any money they gave that wasn't going toward the original cause.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jill-stein-still-owes-fec-campaign-finance-penalites-2020-10?amp
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