Courthouse News Service: Fundraising Wrinkle Exposed in Dems' White House Race
Attorney Larry Noble, the general counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan watchdog, said in a phone interview that the FEC should — but probably wouldn't — investigate the matter.
"I think it violates the spirit of the joint-fundraising rules," he said.
Whether the Clinton campaign also broke the letter of the law depends upon how much control it exercised over the committee's funds, Noble added.
Calling the arrangement "very problematic," Noble said that the article raises "a very interesting question as to whether it violates the law."