TY - JOUR
T1 - Campaign fund-raising abuses and money laundering in recent U.S. elections
T2 - Criminal networks in action
AU - Liddick, Donald R.
N1 - Funding Information:
29. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee confirmed through documents provided by CCF that the Economic Education Trust was funded by Koch Industries. Senate Report 105-167, Part V, Ch. 12.
Funding Information:
Additional evidence gathered by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee indicates that in October 1996, CCF financed television spots attacking Democrats with money provided by a contributor who obtained a confidentiality agreement and participated in the development of the ads.34 The Committee concluded that the anonymous contributor to CCF was almost certainly the Economic Education Trust (an entity which was also the likely source of funds for the placement of advertisements through the Triad shells).35 Bank records show that the money for the CCF campaign was wired from a branch of the Riggs Bank in Washington D.C. – the same bank where the Economic Education Trust had an account. The Senate Govermnental Affairs Committee confirmed through documents provided by CCF that the Economic Education Trust was funded by Koch Industries. Committee members also noted that the brothers Charles and David Koch had a history of funnelling money through non-profit organizations. Many of the states in which Koch Industries had/have financial interests were also the targets of CCF advertising (for example, oil pipelines in Louisiana and Oklahoma, and a refinery in Minnesota where CCF-funded mailings attempted to win a Republican majority in the State House). Some of the candidates who benefited from CCF attack ads also received contributions directly from the Koch brothers as well as Koch Industry’s political action committee.
PY - 2000/9
Y1 - 2000/9
N2 - This study describes some of the campaign fundraising abuses perpetuated by Republican and Democratic operatives in connection with recent U.S. elections. Efforts to conceal the source of campaign contributions or to evade contribution and spending limits involved a variety of money laundering techniques including the use of shell companies, straw donors, and the funnelling of money through political action committees and non profit tax-exempt organizations. In addition to the brazen sale of political access, some of the more serious infractions involved the infusion of foreign money into the Republican and Democratic National Committees as well as the Clinton-Gore reelection campaign. The author concludes the crimes that were committed are explained best as organized criminality manifested as complex networks of patron-client relationships.
AB - This study describes some of the campaign fundraising abuses perpetuated by Republican and Democratic operatives in connection with recent U.S. elections. Efforts to conceal the source of campaign contributions or to evade contribution and spending limits involved a variety of money laundering techniques including the use of shell companies, straw donors, and the funnelling of money through political action committees and non profit tax-exempt organizations. In addition to the brazen sale of political access, some of the more serious infractions involved the infusion of foreign money into the Republican and Democratic National Committees as well as the Clinton-Gore reelection campaign. The author concludes the crimes that were committed are explained best as organized criminality manifested as complex networks of patron-client relationships.
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U2 - 10.1023/a:1008394612150
DO - 10.1023/a:1008394612150
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034366584
SN - 0925-4994
VL - 34
SP - 111
EP - 157
JO - Crime, Law and Social Change
JF - Crime, Law and Social Change
IS - 2
ER -