The revelation that a fundraising consultant for Sen. Ron Wyden brokered a $500k donation to the Democratic Party of Oregon suggests new campaign finance and settlement agreement exposure for DPO.
the sad thing about all this is that the democrats have fostered a massive bureaucracy that is ineffective, incompetent, and answers only to itself. nothing works except as a means to throw money at windmills.
Great reporting. I hope the Oregon DOJ gives due consideration to your pending complaint but I am at best skeptical that you will get much satisfaction from either our elected officials or their hand picked judiciary. Any chance any of this might pique the feds interest?
The feds could have an interest in the Wyden stuff IF there's evidence of more connection to FTX/Bankman-Fried than the reported campaign donations. It's possible to likely there's some relationship there in light of the 2010 donation from Joe Bankman. Also, if DPO should have reported value of donated fundraising services on Wyden's dime then the FEC presumably would have wanted to see Wyden's committee report an in-kind donation to DPO. I was kicking myself earlier about not including that in this piece. Feds are aware of Singh-DPO donation but I believe US DOJ's charges against SBF are all based on donations to federal committees at this point.
the sad thing about all this is that the democrats have fostered a massive bureaucracy that is ineffective, incompetent, and answers only to itself. nothing works except as a means to throw money at windmills.
The bureaucracy, and its thousands of dues-paying and thus Dem campaign-funding public employee union members, is the point.
Great reporting. I hope the Oregon DOJ gives due consideration to your pending complaint but I am at best skeptical that you will get much satisfaction from either our elected officials or their hand picked judiciary. Any chance any of this might pique the feds interest?
The feds could have an interest in the Wyden stuff IF there's evidence of more connection to FTX/Bankman-Fried than the reported campaign donations. It's possible to likely there's some relationship there in light of the 2010 donation from Joe Bankman. Also, if DPO should have reported value of donated fundraising services on Wyden's dime then the FEC presumably would have wanted to see Wyden's committee report an in-kind donation to DPO. I was kicking myself earlier about not including that in this piece. Feds are aware of Singh-DPO donation but I believe US DOJ's charges against SBF are all based on donations to federal committees at this point.
I hope the US Attorney for Oregon is more "fastidious" than either our or the US Attorney General