Today, Americans for Public Trust (APT) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against two shadowy groups for allegedly participating in a straw donor scheme.
In the complaint, APT argues that Stop China Now, a Delaware-based tax exempt organization, was only created to funnel $1.6 million into the Super PAC, Save Western Values, weeks before the election.
Save Western Values was funded by a single $1.6 million donation from Stop China Now — an organization that has now deleted their website. The complaint alleges that “[t]he available facts demonstrate that Stop China Now was created and used as a straw donor to hide the true contributor’s identity (or contributors’ identities), and that Save Western Culture was aware of this fact. The two organizations were created weeks before the November 2024 election and they share the same address. … The common address indicates common control, which in turn, indicates that the person or persons who established the two organizations had knowledge of the underlying details of the contribution at issue in this matter.”
Click here to read the full complaint.
Click here to read Politico‘s reporting on the complaint.
