AG Barr’s contributions to Senate Republicans increased sharply before his confirmation, raising ‘appearance questions’: report

Those late 2018/early 2019 donations, Livni and Yanofsky point out, do not violate FEC rules. Nonetheless, Adav Noti (senior director of the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, D.C. and former associate general counsel for the FEC) told Quartz that Barr’s NRSC contributions should “raise eyebrows.” “The fact that any one person can give such large amounts to a political party creates a perception problem,” Noti told Quartz.

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