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Longtime Trump Organization executive Jeff McConney oversaw all the transactions and financial documents at the company—and he’s already testified.
Vitalik Buterin contributed massive sums of dog-related joke coins, which he’d received as part of a marketing stunt, to a fund for Covid relief in India and other charities.
The quiet transfer of a web domain used to rent out Trump’s email list suggests efforts to consolidate control of a potent political weapon.
Fight Back Now America is asking for money in the former Trump campaign manager’s name. What it’s doing with that cash is a mystery.
An email revealed how a campaign vendor was using a dark money group to move cash around for a candidate he supported.
The calls accused statehouse Speaker Bryan Cutler of “siding with the Democrats” against Trump. But no one knows who is behind them.