[EL] a query

Tue Sep 30 15:57:38 PDT 2014

This question was discussed in testimony provided last year by Mythili Raman, who was then the acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. While the testimony referred specifically to questions involving super PACs, its reasoning extends to other issues, also:

The FEC, through its advisory opinions, regulations, and matters under review, has been unable to reach agreement or declined to take administrative action in each of the following instances of possible coordination: a candidate's mother running a Super PAC expressly supporting the candidacy; sharing of office facilities by political committees and firms providing services to candidates; candidates themselves soliciting contributions to the supposedly independent committees; former campaign employees working for independent committees; sharing common vendors; and the solicitation of contributions to federal candidates by email and on the website of an independent committee. As a result, it will be rare that the evidence could give rise to proof beyond a reasonable doubt of a criminal intent to illegally coordinate through contribution to, or expenditures by, a Super PAC.

(Emphasis mine.)

You can find the entire testimony here: http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/ola/witness/04-09-13-crm-raman-testimony-re-current-issues-in-campaign-finance-law-enforceme.201361129.pdf

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when the FEC splits 3 to 3 on a complaint, does DOJ have authority to pursue it? If so, has it ever done so?: FRANK

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