RNC's highest-paid vendor of the 2020 election: A mystery company formed nine months ago

[Nevilledog]

https://www.salon.com/2020/12/04/rncs-highest-paid-vendor-of-the-2020-election-a-mystery-company-formed-nine-months-ago/

In August, Salon reported that the Republican National Committee (RNC) had paid about $5 million to a mystery marketing services company called Digital Consulting Group LLC, starting with a $2 million expenditure in February, just a month after the company was formed.

Now, filings with the Federal Election Commission show that the RNC paid Digital Consulting Group more than $42 million for media buys, consulting and marketing between February and October. The company went from nonexistent to being the Republican Party's highest-paid vendor of the 2020 election, all in the space of eight months.

But Digital Consulting Group presents a mystery. No other political campaign or committee has reported any payments at all to the company. While a number of organizations share the name, this particular Digital Consulting Group — a Delaware company founded Jan. 15, 2020 — does not appear to have a website, and a Delaware business entity search does not reveal an owner or location. The RNC's spending reports list a virtual address in Wilmington, but beyond that the company cannot be traced.

That $42 million in expenditures makes this anonymous company the RNC's highest-paid vendor of the last two years, pulling in nearly $3.5 million more than the next-largest vendor, the direct-mail firm Communications Corporation of America (CCA), and topping third-place JDB Marketing, another direct mail provider, by about $19 million.

For further perspective, Digital Consulting Group received four out of the five largest payments that the RNC doled out between 2019 and 2020, including a flat $6 million on Oct. 7 for an unspecified media buy. In fact, it has received three of the 10 largest payments that the RNC has ever made — all to a company that was evidently constructed to conceal is origins and prevent the public from knowing anything about it.

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[rzemanfl]

1. Grifters are gonna grift. K&R. n/t

[Nevilledog]

4. True.

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. Money 💰 laundering

[rurallib]

10. The delightful smell of laundered money in the morning

Donny Trump's favorite smell

[crickets]

11. Spring fresh, clean and crisp. nt

[PoliticAverse]

3. Establishing a "consulting" company is a way to evade many campaign finance restrictions. n/t

[JDC]

5. Smells just like a Trump crime family shell co

[mitch96]

12. +1

[Thomas Hurt]

6. Trump scam company. Money went right into the Pig's pocket.

[soothsayer]

7. Smdh

[maxsolomon]

8. Isn't Ivanka a Consultant?

Maybe she knows.

If the IRS wasn't neutered maybe this would be sniffed out.

[erronis]

9. If trump hears about this.... Hey, Ivanka - is that you? Junior? Jared? Where's my kickback?

You children better not get the don mad. He may have a hissy-fit. Disown you from the billions he doesn't have.

[MerryBlooms]

13. check republican senator's offshore accounts- mcconnell and graham to start.