Election financiers operating in the shadows

“This has been a growing problem both at the federal level and the state level,” says Aaron McKean, a lawyer with the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, with nonprofit 501(c)(4) corporations as well as limited liability corporations, or LLCs, taking part in conveying funds collected from undisclosed donors to campaigns or independent expenditure groups. “A lot of states haven’t caught up with the kind of disclosure we really need to have transparent and accountable elections.”

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