Recent expenditures by BlackPAC include support for Sherrod Brown, a candidate that crypto super PAC Fairshake has spent $40 million to oppose.
Horowitz has contributed $22 million to Fairshake.
I look forward to the FEC enforcing its longstanding prohibitions against “pay-to-play”.
He’s also complained that we accused Coinbase of having partisan bias in who they support, something we did not allege or imply. We single out the donation to the Congressional Leadership Fund and not its Democratic equivalent because only the former happened within the prohibited period.
I look forward to the FEC enforcing its longstanding prohibitions against “pay-to-play”.
Read the full complaint and my updated article.
Complaint: https://www.citizen.org/article/coinbase-fec-complaint/
Updated article: https://www.citationneeded.news/coinbase-campaign-finance-violation/
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There are, unfortunately, loopholes when it comes to campaign finance law, and companies have exploited them in the past by donating and contracting through subsidiaries. I don’t believe that’s what’s happening here, and Coinbase refused to provide any further information.
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