Money laundering

Anti-Trump GOPer: ‘We Laid The Trap, They Leapt Into It’

This is not a tip world—it’s not something people slip under our door. We saw a reference in a blog by Lachlan Markay of The Daily Beast about a large contribution to the Trump SuperPAC from an “unknown” company. We were reviewing the reports filed by the Trump SuperPAC, and noticed the very large contribution—$325,000. That was big enough to catch our eye. We went into the public records database to try to figure out what the heck GEP [Global Energy Products] is, because it’s not something we’d ever heard of. The first thing that jumped off the records page was that it was founded three weeks before the contribution. Then the bells go off.

...We now know that they got it. And they responded to the government in sworn statements in which they lied. That’s exactly what [the indictment] says: They told the government that this [Global Energy Products] was legitimate company, not a shell company.

Well, the Justice Department now knows that’s false, and has laid out in the indictment the extraordinary facts that not only did the company have no money, but it didn’t even make the contribution through its accounts. It just lied, and said it had come from the company, when it didn’t.

So how the Justice Department got that, we do not know exactly. But one way or another, they responded to the FEC complaint we filed. That’s what was the rope that hanged them.