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Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee have paid at least $1.8 million to a political operative whose roster of companies include several that have been repeatedly investigated for voter registration fraud, even as Trump has complained that the election is rigged against him.
Three employees of Strategic Allied Consulting, a firm owned by conservative operative Nathan Sproul, pleaded guilty in Florida four years ago to felony charges related to altering and destroying scores of voter registration forms. There were no formal actions against the firm.
Yet recent federal campaign finance reports reviewed by The Associated Press show Sproul is now back on the RNC's payroll, this time with a firm named Lincoln Strategy Group, a renamed version of his former firm Sproul & Associates, an Arizona-based firm that was investigated for alleged voter registration misconduct in Nevada and Oregon.
Although Sproul was never charged in the 2012 Florida case, GOP officials and Mitt Romney's presidential campaign considered the charges against his employees alone serious enough to fire his company in 2012. The chairman of the RNC said this week he didn't know Sproul's firm has been rehired. Neither the Republican Party nor the Trump campaign would discuss the specifics of the work Sproul or the firm is doing and in what states.
The RNC paid Sproul's company a total of $1.2 million in October for get-out-the-vote efforts. Records show Donald J. Trump For President, Inc., paid another $600,000 to Lincoln Strategy on Oct. 27.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said it was reviewing “numerous” claims involving a company that Mr. Sproul runs to determine if a criminal investigation is warranted. Complaints have surfaced in 10 Florida counties, among them allegations that registrations had similar signatures or false addresses, or were filed under the names of dead people. In other cases, party affiliations appeared to have been changed.
The Dems could only pray the past week Trump would say something controversial or a new damning video footage would be discovered. Anything to get the negative spotlight off HC and back on to Trump.
And yesterday the incident at the Reno rally rocketed Trump to the top of the news cycle. "Breaking News! Trump..."
Later he returns to the stage and the cheers of the crowd. Go Trump. Go America.
so according to the liberals, when they do it, its nobig deal, its just registration fraud, but when republicans do teh same thing, its the end of the world as we know it? you must love hypocrisy dont you?
In the 2012 Florida case, three employees of Sproul’s firm pleaded guilty to forging voter registrations, saying their supervisors had demanded it.[/b]
Operating under numerous corporate names, Sproul’s firms also have a history of allegations of voter registration fraud. In a 2012 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Sproul acknowledged he set up multiple companies at the RNC’s request, because the Republican Party wanted to obscure its ties to what he called baseless allegations of his firms.
Seems like he's been caught red handed several times.
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Neither the Republican Party nor the Trump campaign would discuss the specifics of the work Sproul or the firm is doing and in what states.
