ProPublica: Super PAC to Billionaire: We Need More Money to Save a Republican Senate
Larry Noble, the former top lawyer for the Federal Election Commission, said the arrangement was within the rules.
But “calling a super PAC that is ‘blessed’ by the candidate and run by his former staff ‘independent’ shows how ludicrous the FEC’s current coordination rules are,” said Noble, who is now general counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, a group that advocates for stricter enforcement of campaign finance regulations.