The Federal Election Commission doled out $940,000 in fines to the super PAC that backed Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid after the commission found evidence that it took money from a foreign national
The super PAC, Right to Rise, was fined $390,000 for the violation, while the FEC gave an additional $550,000 fine to American Pacific International Capital, Inc. The company had donated $1.3 million to Bush’s super PAC in the spring of 2015, as Bush was gearing up for a run for president.
The FEC did not find that the donations were “knowing and willful” violations of the law, according to newThe donation came after Jeb Bush’s brother Neil, who sits on the board of APIC, discussed a contribution in February 2015 with Gordon Tang, another APIC board member who is a Chinese national. In total, two Chinese nationals communicated about the donation, according to documents released by the FEC.
APIC gave $1 million to Right to Rise in March, and the company followed up with another $300,000 in June. Federal law bans foreign nationals from donating in American elections and says that a foreign national can’t “direct, dictate, control, or directly or indirectly participate in” a corporation’s decision-making process around election-related activities. Because Neil Bush played a part soliciting the donations, both Right to Rise and APIC were fined.
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