Susan Collins' Campaign Is Being Helped by a Mysterious Hawaii Company
Source: The Daily Beast
A mysterious Hawaii company may have illegally funneled a six-figure contribution to a political group boosting an embattled Republican Senator 5,000 miles away, an ethics watchdog alleged on Monday.
The company, Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC, was formed in late November, according to corporate records in Hawaii. Just over a month later, on December 31, the company donated $150,000 to 1820 PAC, a deep-pocketed super PAC with ties to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that was created to help reelect Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).
There is scant public information about the company. It does not appear to have a website or any social media presence. Its listed address is a P.O. box in Honolulu (listed as a unit number in 1820s FEC filings). Google searches turn up no information on the company. And theres no record of prior political involvement by its sole officer, Jennifer Lam.
All of that suggests that the Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers was set up for the sole purpose of making political contributions, according to the Campaign Legal Center, which filed a complaint on Monday asking the Federal Election Commission to investigate its December contribution to 1820 PAC, which was named after the year Maine was founded.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/susan-collins-campaign-is-being-helped-by-a-mysterious-hawaii-company
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)woodsprite
(11,854 posts)Mickju
(1,794 posts)Her father is a piece of work also. Horrible family!!!
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)and get away with it.
RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)is that if those companies have '1A' rights, does that mean they can also be subject to 'capital punishment' - effectively put out of business for bad acts/bad behavior?
groundloop
(11,488 posts)Python boot
(74 posts)Good one, capital punishment for corporations. Corporate charters once had ending dates. Once corporations got personhood under the law they live forever.
Under slavery persons are property.
Under corporate personhood property are persons.
Both steal your rights.
Lonestarblue
(9,880 posts)Trump is reported to have several hundred shell companies. What legitimate business purpose,,other than to hide assets, do such companies serve? Shouldnt they outlawed if they have no legitimate purpose? Our tax collection would increase significantly if corporations could not hide earning s and if they were taxed fully on all income,,whether earned in the US or elsewhere.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Susan is past her sell by date and massive dark money infusions from out of state likely wont help her popularity.
bucolic_frolic
(42,679 posts)to drill volcanoes for oil and natural gas, but hey what do I know
Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)It should be Scientists, right?
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)Habibi
(3,597 posts)From the article:
cstanleytech
(26,084 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)did this in conjunction with some people in China
cstanleytech
(26,084 posts)mahina
(17,506 posts)WASHINGTON One of the men President Donald Trump tapped to defend him in his impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate has deep ties to Hawaii.
Mike Purpura was hired as deputy White House counsel in 2018, the same year Democrats won back control of the U.S. House in the November elections.
One of his main duties, according to reports, has been to shield the president from congressional subpoenas, including those seeking grand jury testimony from Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Prior to taking the job in Washington, Purpura was the chief legal officer at BlackSand Capital, a private equity real estate firm in Honolulu.
Hmmm
Ill ask the only Jennifer Lam I know.
Greybnk48
(10,148 posts)We all know where this money's coming from.
usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)How many millions did (does) MoscowMitch have available to buy Senators votes in the impeachment trial?
bluedigger
(17,077 posts)Nice corporate name, too. Nothing suspiciously foreign about that.