PAC supporting Donald Trump's re-election bid sponsoring Corey LaJoie for 9 NASCAR Cup Series races

“This Race Fans for Trump 2020 LLC has all of the characteristics of a straw donor: it was created one week, gave money to a super PAC the next week, and then folded,” said Brendan Fischer, the director of federal and FEC reforms at the Campaign Legal Center. It’s illegal to make political donations in another person’s name, and shell companies set up to funnel money into a political group—without conducting any actual bona fide business—are an increasingly common means to do so. “There are some apparent legal violations here,” Fischer said. “It seems apparent that the $27,000 came from a source other than the LLC, which does not appear to have any legitimate business or investment revenue.”

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