The complaint lists five nonprofits, tracks contributions totaling $1.27 million to federally registered super PACs in 2020 and names seven individuals.īecause of its nonprofit status, it Broken Promises didn’t have to disclose its donors, so FPL’s contribution was untraceable until documents from Matrix were leaked after Pitts tried to set up a rival consulting firm using FPL and other clients of his former employer. Five nonprofits, seven individuals named in complaint They want investigators to refer any findings to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. “Campaign finance laws are meant to ensure transparency in elections so that voters can make an informed decision based on all the facts.”Ĭitizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is asking the FEC to investigate whether the dark money groups and the officials that controlled them broke the law.
“When political contributions are made through dark money groups, the public is denied their right to know who is influencing their elections,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington President Noah Bookbinder said in a statement. Such a so-called “dark money” scheme violates the Federal Election Campaign Act, which requires the true source of political contributions to be disclosed and bars contributions in the name of another. Related: FPL funds secretly paid for a spoiler candidate in a 2018 Florida race
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