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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 01:29 PM Jun 2016

The shady people and groups behind "Draper Sterling".

An "advertising firm" listed on Trumps financial report:

http://www.mediaite.com/election-2016/donald-trump-campaign-appears-to-be-paying-a-fictional-ad-agency/


Draper Sterling was registered with the New Hampshire Secretary of State to Jon Adkins, the co-founder of a medical device startup. Its headquarters is Adkins’ home address in residential New Hampshire.

Adkins co-founded the medical device company with Paul Holzer, a former Navy Seal and current medical student at Dartmouth. Holzer was involved in Charlie Baker’s run for governor in 2014 — he ran the campaign’s “voter contact strategy.” He was also part of the “management and strategy team” for Missourians For John Brunner, a candidate for governor.

Trump paid an additional $3,000 each to Holzer and Adkins in May for “field consulting.” Holzer listed Adkins’ home as his address.

The only other apparent public mention of Draper Sterling effectively accuses it of being a scam that helps perpetrate legally questionable activity.
It comes from an FEC complaint against an entity called “Patriots For America,” a federal super PAC seeking to influence the Missouri governor’s race. The complaint, filed on May 12 by an economics professor named Aaron Hedlund, alleges that Patriots For America listed no receipts or disbursements on its FEC filings, yet sent out direct mail.


More at link....

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/21/3790715/weird-story-behind-trump-campaigns-35000-payment-draper-sterling-advertising/



Also being reported:

The Trump campaign is doing a forensic audit on all of Corey Lewandowski's spending.

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The shady people and groups behind "Draper Sterling". (Original Post) sufrommich Jun 2016 OP
I can't be the only one to think of this... Electric Monk Jun 2016 #1
That's the joke. I can't imagine anyone was stupid sufrommich Jun 2016 #3
Salud aidbo Jun 2016 #4
I bet the forensic audit... Else You Are Mad Jun 2016 #2
In addition to the fraud matt819 Jun 2016 #5
Well they do have the same first name Armstead Jun 2016 #6

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
3. That's the joke. I can't imagine anyone was stupid
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 01:46 PM
Jun 2016

enough to think nobody would make the connection when they "named" this con job.

Else You Are Mad

(3,040 posts)
2. I bet the forensic audit...
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 01:38 PM
Jun 2016

Determines that Corey stayed at non-Trump hotels, ate non-Trump steaks at non-Trump owned cafes and resteraunts, and drank non-trump wine and vodka -- all of which were charged to the Trump campaign. He had to be let go becsuse he didn't launder enough donated money.

matt819

(10,749 posts)
5. In addition to the fraud
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 02:44 PM
Jun 2016

I suspect that there were less expensive options for all of those purchases, which is yet one more indication if his bad business skills

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