re: Allen Weisselberg Trump Organization CFO Granted Immunity in Cohen Investigation

Common Cause will bend it however they like. Cohen was never part of the Trump for President Committee nor an official member of the campaign so any expenditure could be attributed to him acting as VP of the Trump Organization or as Co-President of Trump Entertainment or as personal lawyer to Donald trump as Trump was a private citizen at the time of the expenditure.

He was Deputy finance chair of the RNC, but as far as I can tell he did not co-mingle those funds with the payoffs.

If Trump had paid off someone in a potential lawsuit during his campaign that was a result of something the Trump Organization was accused of doing, would that have been considered an in kind contribution? No.

I'm thinking that the federal government is using the bank FEC statutes in a very fast and lose manner as well as bank fraud statutes.....nailing him for not reporting some debt on a 500K HELOC application???????? You'd have to lock up thousands of businessmen who have big homes with high equity levels.......there is not enough prison space. I think Cohen's attorney saw that the US Atty in conjunction with Mueller was going to twist and misuse these statutes and Cohen would not have a prayer if this thing went to trial because of the focus of the DOJ and Mueller.

Common Cause is a Democrat affiliated Progressive group. That would like nothing more than total public funding of elections via the US Treasury. hey are disingenuous