An apparent shell company may have unlawfully directed almost $2.6 million to half a dozen political action committees linked to Republicans, according to a left-wing watchdog group.
Ardleigh Impact, the company, made the super PAC donations from February to March of this year from an address in Virginia, Federal Election Commission filings show. However, given the short time span between its October 2023 incorporation in Delaware and transfer of the cash in 2024, as well as the lack of publicly available information about Ardleigh Impact, Campaign Legal Center argued in an FEC complaint on Tuesday that the company likely hasn’t conducted enough business to have generated the funds.
Therefore, the watchdog group argued to the top regulator, Ardleigh Impact violated federal rules by utilizing a “straw donor” scheme that shields the source behind the
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