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demmiblue

(36,751 posts)
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:37 PM Feb 2020

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 1820’s FEC filings). Google searches turn up no information on the company. And there’s 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

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Susan Collins' Campaign Is Being Helped by a Mysterious Hawaii Company (Original Post) demmiblue Feb 2020 OP
Do they share a PO Box with Tulsi? lagomorph777 Feb 2020 #1
My first thought! Be worth some digging! nt woodsprite Feb 2020 #3
My first thought also. It must have something to do with the Gabbards. Mickju Feb 2020 #20
My first thought. GoneOffShore Feb 2020 #23
These corporations now have first amendment rights yet they can break laws at will yaesu Feb 2020 #2
question I'd like to see further researched RT Atlanta Feb 2020 #8
Good point.... after all, corporations are people too (just ask Mitt). groundloop Feb 2020 #9
Good one Python boot Feb 2020 #14
Our corporate laws need a serious overhaul. Lonestarblue Feb 2020 #11
Kick dalton99a Feb 2020 #4
Unless they hack the voting system, it may not help. BlueIdaho Feb 2020 #5
Sounds like a plan bucolic_frolic Feb 2020 #6
Sounds like the company was named by a non-native-English speaker. Qutzupalotl Feb 2020 #7
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Feb 2020 #10
Doesn't look like the FEC can do much, though. Habibi Feb 2020 #12
For now however criminal charges can be brought down the road to those involved. cstanleytech Feb 2020 #16
I wonder if Jared and/or Ivanka NewJeffCT Feb 2020 #13
Donald Trump being the 3rd party? cstanleytech Feb 2020 #15
Meet The Former Hawaii Lawyer Who's Defending President Donald Trump mahina Feb 2020 #17
Vladamir Putin is sooooo clever, lol! Greybnk48 Feb 2020 #18
Only $150,000 cheap SOBs. How many millions were passed thru NRA to gun rights legislators. usaf-vet Feb 2020 #19
Alaska I could have understood, because you can see Russia from there, but Hawaii? bluedigger Feb 2020 #21
k and R riversedge Feb 2020 #22

Mickju

(1,794 posts)
20. My first thought also. It must have something to do with the Gabbards.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 03:56 PM
Feb 2020

Her father is a piece of work also. Horrible family!!!

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
2. These corporations now have first amendment rights yet they can break laws at will
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:47 PM
Feb 2020

and get away with it.

RT Atlanta

(2,517 posts)
8. question I'd like to see further researched
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 01:44 PM
Feb 2020

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?

Python boot

(74 posts)
14. Good one
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 02:47 PM
Feb 2020

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)
11. Our corporate laws need a serious overhaul.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 02:14 PM
Feb 2020

Trump is reported to have several hundred shell companies. What legitimate business purpose,,other than to hide assets, do such companies serve? Shouldn’t 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.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
5. Unless they hack the voting system, it may not help.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:54 PM
Feb 2020

Susan is past her sell by date and massive dark money infusions from out of state likely won’t help her popularity.

Habibi

(3,597 posts)
12. Doesn't look like the FEC can do much, though.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 02:25 PM
Feb 2020

From the article:

It’s not likely that much will come of that complaint. The FEC is currently operating without a quorum of commissioners, meaning it is unable to take any legal action against alleged violators of the laws the commission is charged with enforcing.

mahina

(17,506 posts)
17. Meet The Former Hawaii Lawyer Who's Defending President Donald Trump
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 03:19 PM
Feb 2020
https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/01/meet-the-former-hawaii-lawyer-whos-defending-president-donald-trump/

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 Mueller’s 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

I’ll ask the only Jennifer Lam I know.

usaf-vet

(6,094 posts)
19. Only $150,000 cheap SOBs. How many millions were passed thru NRA to gun rights legislators.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 03:24 PM
Feb 2020

How many millions did (does) MoscowMitch have available to buy Senators votes in the impeachment trial?

bluedigger

(17,077 posts)
21. Alaska I could have understood, because you can see Russia from there, but Hawaii?
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 04:24 PM
Feb 2020

Nice corporate name, too. Nothing suspiciously foreign about that.

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