Fake Company Gives $1 Million to Support Romney

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by: Colorado Pols

Crazy story from MSNBC:

A mystery company that pumped $1 million into a political committee backing Mitt Romney has been dissolved just months after it was formed, leaving few clues as to who was behind one of the biggest contributions yet of the 2012 presidential campaign…

…The company, W Spann LLC, was formed in March by a Boston lawyer who specializes in estate tax planning for “high net worth individuals,” according to corporate records and the lawyer’s bio on her firm’s website. The corporate records provide no information about the owner of the firm, its address or its type of business.

Six weeks later, W Spann LLC made its million-dollar donation to Restore Our Future – a new so-called “super PAC” started by a group of former Romney political aides to boost the former Massachusetts governor’s presidential bid. It listed its address as being in a midtown Manhattan office building that has no record of such a tenant.

The Boston lawyer, Cameron Casey, dissolved the company on July 12 – two weeks before Restore Our Future made its first campaign filing of the year reporting the donation from the now-nonexistent company, the corporate records show.

“I don’t see how you can do this,” said Lawrence Noble, the former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission, when asked about the contribution from the now defunct company.

Yeah, but corporations are people, too! Even when they’re, uh, not really corporations?

We can’t see how this could end up being legal, because it would be like a deceased person making a campaign contribution. Speaking of which — we’re going to be on the lookout for any contributions to Romney from a “Ron Reagan” in California.

16 thoughts on “Fake Company Gives $1 Million to Support Romney”

Middle of the Road says:

August 4, 2011 at 7:36 pm

little sum in it’s newly formed existence.

Last week, Restore Our Future filed its first report of 2012, disclosing that it had received $12.2 million during the first six months of the year. Among the contributors: four donors who contributed $1 million apiece, including John Paulson, the Wall Street hedge fund kingpin who made billions betting against the housing market, and two corporate partnerships listed at the Provo, Utah, address of Steven J. Lund, a former chief executive of Nu Skin Enterprises and a longtime Romney backer who has been a leader in the Mormon Church.

And I hate to disagree with Pols, but it looks like this is totally legal. Scummy and unethical as hell? Yes. Illegal? Not according to the Supreme Court.

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1. Fidel's dirt nap says:
  
  August 4, 2011 at 7:51 pm
  
  that dickhead Jason Chaffets old employer, before he became a useless congressman. Rather incestuous.
  
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2. allyncooper says:
  
  August 4, 2011 at 8:06 pm
  
  It’s not like a deceased person made the contribution. The LLC was “born” in March, and “died” in July, but was “alive” when it made the contribution.
  
  Sounds perfectly legal to me.
  
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  1. allyncooper says:
    
    August 4, 2011 at 8:12 pm
    
    Isn’t that an oxymoron? How can you restore something that hasn’t happened yet? Shouldn’t it be “Restore Our Past” ?
    
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    1. Fidel's dirt nap says:
      
      August 4, 2011 at 8:19 pm
      
      You can restore the future just as easily as you can recreate the past.
      
      Ronald Reagan never raised taxes. See how easy that was ?
      
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      1. Diogenesdemar says:
        
        August 4, 2011 at 8:32 pm
        
        Coming to a restored future near you . . .
        
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        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
        
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      2. BlueCat says:
        
        August 4, 2011 at 8:37 pm
        
        Conti thought when I spoke to her. Also could not believe that top tier taxes were way higher under Reagan than they are now or that people aren’t over-taxed compared to the good old days. It was a little spooky. Kind of like talking to a political version of a Stepford wife.
        
        I sent her helpful stats with links but never heard back. She probably deleted it after a glance while holding up a cross to ward off Satan and while resisting any temptation to look at facts that God must have planted to test her faith.
        
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        MADCO says:
        
        August 4, 2011 at 8:40 pm
        
        You’re dreaming – it took no where near that long.
        
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        BlueCat says:
        
        August 4, 2011 at 8:55 pm
        
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Diogenesdemar says:

August 4, 2011 at 7:47 pm

all the time:

Amelia Earhart; Samantha Mulder; Mars Blackmon; . . . hell, that entire sane faction of the Republican party has been missing since about 1976 . . .; most evolutionary links; Arsenio Hall used to everywhere — now? Have you seen him anywhere lately?; Cher; one or two former Polsters; Erik Estrada (finally, thank God); Peter Boyles brain; . . . the list goes on and on and on . . .

Corporations have feeling too, why are you guys always picking on them?

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Diogenesdemar says:

August 4, 2011 at 9:16 pm

Romney campaign raises $12 million from just 90 donors

http://www.washingtontimes.com…

Of four $1 million donations, two came from cryptically-named limited liability companies, or LLCs, sharing the same office suite in Provo, Utah. The only one with a recognizable name attached arrived from the 50th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper: The offices of John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made millions of dollars an hour betting on the implosion of the housing market.

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Half Glass Full says:

August 4, 2011 at 10:50 pm

Desperate ideologues like Michelle Bachmann and Herman Cain won’t let the issue rest. Mittens needs to buy them off fast. I predict he’ll give the VP slot to Bachmann and Secretary of State to Cain.

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sxp151 says:

August 5, 2011 at 1:19 am

Here we have a cute newborn corporation, all bright-eyed and eager to create jobs. But all it sees around it is abortionizing Democrats and unqualified minorities, so it gives up after only a few months, leaving one last gift to the world in the form of a small contribution to a Republican.

(You know, with inflation a million dollar contribution is really not what it used to be, you should stop talking about it like it’s some kind of big thing. Most Americans could give a bigger contribution out of their trust fund and barely make a dent in it.)

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1. RedGreen says:
  
  August 5, 2011 at 1:22 am
  
  crushing the life out of corporations and other job-creators with its burdens of uncertainty.
  
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  1. sxp151 says:
    
    August 5, 2011 at 1:25 am
    
    which is kind of ironic because libs HATE plastic, heh heh grin.
    
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    1. ajb says:
      
      August 5, 2011 at 1:30 am
      
      Is the mother’s milk of capitalism.
      
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