Watchdog files FEC complaint against super PACs linked to congressional leaders

The Campaign Legal Center said the super PACs violated election rules that require political committees to disclose their ties to affiliated groups. Adav Noti, the watchdog’s senior director of trial litigation and chief of staff, said the increasing popularity of the campaign tactic should prompt a “firm crackdown by the FEC.” “Senior leaders of both parties have been steering money from wealthy special interests to front groups specifically designed to trick voters," Noti said in a statement.

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