{"id":1410167,"date":"2022-03-30T12:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410167"},"modified":"2022-03-30T13:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:49:42","slug":"fec-fines-dnc-and-clinton-campaign-for-trump-dossier-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fec-fines-dnc-and-clinton-campaign-for-trump-dossier-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"FEC Fines DNC and Clinton Campaign for Trump Dossier Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffec-fines-dnc-and-clinton-campaign-for-trump-dossier-hoax%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410167&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p>The Federal Election Commission has fined the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign for lying about the funding of the infamous, and discredited, Russian \u201cdossier\u201d used in a smear attempt against Donald Trump weeks before he shocked the world with his 2016 presidential victory.<\/p>\n<p>The election agency said that Clinton and the DNC violated strict rules on describing expenditures of payments funneled to the opposition research firm Fusion GPS through their law firm.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A combined $1,024,407.97 was paid by the treasurers of the DNC and Clinton campaign to law firm Perkins Coie for Fusion GPS\u2019s information, and the party and campaign hid the reason, claiming it was for legal services, not opposition research.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the DNC\u2019s $849,407.97 and the Clinton campaign\u2019s $175,000 covered Fusion GPS\u2019s opposition research on the dossier, a basis for the so-called \u201cRussia hoax\u201d that dogged Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n<p>The memo said that the Clinton campaign and DNC argued that they were correct in describing their payment as for \u201clegal advice and services\u201d because it was Perkins Coie that hired Fusion GPS. But the agency said the law is clear and was violated.<\/p>\n<p>It added that neither the campaign nor the party conceded to lying but won\u2019t contest the finding. \u201cSolely for the purpose of settling this matter expeditiously and to avoid further legal costs, respondent[s] does not concede, but will not further contest the commission&#8217;s finding of probable cause to proceed\u201d with the probe, said the FEC.<\/p>\n<p>The FEC, in a memo to the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coolidgereagan.org\/\">Coolidge Reagan Foundation<\/a>, which filed its complaint over three years ago, said it fined Clinton\u2019s treasurer $8,000 and the DNC\u2019s treasurer $105,000.<\/p>\n<p>The memo, shared with Secrets, is to be made public in a month.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chalmersadams.com\/attorneys\/dan-backer-2\/\">Dan Backer,<\/a> who brought the complaint on behalf of the foundation, which focuses on free speech and the First Amendment, told Secrets, \u201cThis may well be the first time that Hillary Clinton \u2014 one of the most evidently corrupt politicians in American history \u2014 has actually been held legally accountable, and I&#8217;m proud to have forced the FEC to do their job for once. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation proved that with pluck and grit, Americans who stand with integrity can stand up to the Clinton machine and other corrupt political elites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton has in the past defended her campaign\u2019s spending for the information and the work of her campaign lawyer, Marc Elias, with Fusion GPS, which compiled the dossier and hired former British spy Christopher Steele to dig further on Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has assailed the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier\/2017\/10\/24\/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html\">dossier<\/a> as full of lies, and the FBI has called it fake, but only after the damage settled in on the president.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have continued to press for charges against Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Backer, with Washington\u2019s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chalmersadams.com\/\">Chalmers &#038; Adams law firm,<\/a> held out hope for further action against the former first lady. He said, \u201cHillary Clinton and her cronies willfully engaged in the greatest political fraud in history \u2014 destroying our nation&#8217;s faith in the electoral process, and it\u2019s high time they were held accountable. I hope this is only the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Election Commission has fined the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign for lying about the funding of the infamous, and discredited, Russian \u201cdossier\u201d used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}