Marc Elias, Democratic Campaign Arm Hit With FEC Complaint For Allegedly Misclassifying Legal Payments

  Democratic lawyer Marc Elias and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee are the subjects of a complaint to the Federal Election Commission alleging that they misclassified payments.

The Elias Law Group was paid nearly $5.2 million by the DCCC from Oct. 2021 to July 2022 for legal services classified as "RECOUNT LEGAL SVCS," despite no federal recounts taking place in that time period, and months to go until the Nov. 2022 midterm elections, according to an FEC complaint brought on April 10 by the Committee to Defeat the President, an anti-Biden Super PAC. After July 2022, Elias' group received an additional $7.3 million for recount-related services for the midterm elections, the complaint alleges.

"The more likely explanation is the DCCC, with the cooperation of the Elias Law Group, misreported the purpose of some or all of this $5.2 million in payments to the Elias Law Group to shield their activities from public scrutiny," the complaint states.

In addition to the "Recount" payments, the DCCC also paid Elias Law Group over $1 million for "Legal services rendered" and "Headquarters legal services" from 2021 to 2022 and reported the payments as "Other federal operating expenditures."

Clinton's failed presidential campaign and the DNC were fined by the FEC in 2022 for misreporting payments towards the dossier as legal expenses instead of as opposition research.

"For years, the infamous Marc Elias and the corrupt Democrats in his orbit have violated federal campaign finance laws, and it's high time to hold them accountable. Americans deserve to know the truth about the Democratic Party's shady money laundering schemes, especially when campaign funds are supposed to be spent in one way and they get spent in another," Backer said in a statement.

"Based on the Committee's robust research, and Elias' own shady past, it seems pretty clear that Elias and other Democrats have engaged in false reporting, and that cannot go unchecked."

https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/19/marc-elias-dccc-complaint/