The legal lines Louis DeJoy’s alleged campaign contribution reimbursements may have crossed

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The Washington Post
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“With the facts presented, it’s a run-of-the-mill but very illegal corporate straw donor scheme,” said Adav Noti, a former top lawyer with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and now with the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog.“Because you are taking prohibited contributions from a corporation, and you’re funneling it through employees.” There is more leniency in the law for senior executives to be cajoled into giving, said Noti of the Campaign Legal Center

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