Big Romney donor killed by lawyer

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A mystery company that pumped $1 million into a political committee backing Mitt Romney has been dissolved just months after it was formed, leaving few clues as to who was behind one of the biggest contributions yet of the 2012 presidential campaign.

The existence of the million-dollar donation — as gleaned from campaign and corporate records obtained by NBC News — provides a vivid example of how secret campaign cash is being funneled in ever more circuitous ways into the political system.

The company, W Spann LLC, was formed in March by a Boston lawyer who specializes in estate tax planning for “high net worth individuals,” according to corporate records and the lawyer’s bio on her firm’s website.

The corporate records provide no information about the owner of the firm, its address or its type of business.

Six weeks later, W Spann LLC made its million-dollar donation to Restore Our Future — a new so-called “super PAC” started by a group of former Romney political aides to boost the former Massachusetts governor’s presidential bid. It listed its address as being in a midtown Manhattan office building that has no record of such a tenant.

The Boston lawyer, Cameron Casey, dissolved the company on July 12 — two weeks before Restore Our Future made its first campaign filing of the year reporting the donation from the now-nonexistent company, the corporate records show.

“I don’t see how you can do this,” said Lawrence Noble, the former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission, when asked about the contribution from the now defunct company.

If the only purpose of W Spann’s formation was to contribute to the pro-Romney group, “There is a real issue of it being just a subterfuge” and that could raise a "serious" legal issue, Noble said. Even if that is not the case, he added, “What you have here is a roadmap for how people can hide their identities” when making political contributions.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44011308/#.TjqzNmafLZu

This is a sad day for politcal discourse in America. The poor corporation, obviously very passionate about politics, was killed even before it had a chance to cast a vote in a primary. Perhaps the Supreme Court can legislate an exception from the bench to let dead corporations have a vote if it can be demonstrated they made a big enough donation.

Now I'll admit, I have aborted my fair share of corporatons in the time between when they were conceived and when birth would happen when the state paperwork would be filed - but that was usually a case of perserving the financial health of the parent. This is something altogether different - cold blooded murder of a company that is giving its poltical voice. Depending on the gender, religion, and national origin of the people that put up funds for the corporation to donate, it may even be a hate crime.

Why is it a corporation that donated to a Republican that was killed? Is Obama behind the hitman? We need some impeachment hearings so we can get to the bottom of this.
 
This just shows you the fascist policies of the liberuls, sending out their brown shirts to get rid of the opposition.
 
It could be a case of National Security. An undesirable donor (a foreign national or more) donating to a mystery company that seek to influence one of our candidates for the next upcoming national election campaign.
 
Yeah, I just don't understand how anybody could possibly think this stuff is okay.

Political donations have now just become an elaborate money laundering scheme. Get the money out of elections if you want to have office holders who give a crap about their constituents.
 
This nonsense pretty much undercuts all the noble-sounding rationale the majority of the Supreme Court used when they were legislating from the bench in Citizens United.
 
The way I understand it now (After the landmark case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission), the procedure of federal election campaigns work in this manner: donors , unions, or Corporations pay through federal PAC (Political action committee) which then goes through the (FEC) Federal Election Commission so that the public can see it. It does not however show who are the donors contributing to the PAC.

I hope I am right on that.
 
Thoughtful Thug said:
The way I understand it now (After the landmark case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission), the procedure of federal election campaigns work in this manner: donors , unions, or Corporations pay through federal PAC (Political action committee) which goes through the (FEC) Federal Election Commission (FEC) so that the public can see it. It does not however show who are the donors contributing to the PAC.
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But aren't Super PAC's immune from that? They don't have to show who the donors are if I'm not mistaken.
 
galdre said:
But aren't Super PAC's immune from that? They don't have to show who the donors are if I'm not mistaken.
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I think it applies to all non-connected, and connected PACs after the 2010 ruling. This ruling gave rise to Super PACs that we all have seen in the 2010 elections.


JollyRoger said:
Curious that it has not yet been denied that Al Queda was the donor to the corporation.
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It can be anyone from all corners of the world. I am sure there are possibly special individuals (men in black) watching where the money is coming from, I hope. :/
 
I'm sure the framers of the Constitution wanted to strip Congress' ability to set up a system that would detect if the British monarch was financially backing a candidate for office in the United States.
 
I thought this was going to be about an assassination.
 
Phrossack said:
I thought this was going to be about an assassination.
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It is. Corporations are considered people in America. There needs to a murder charge filed against this lawyer.

I will point out that this corporation was conceived in Massachusetts and lived its short life in New York. Both of those states have notoriously strict gun control laws. The little tyke had no chance of defending itself.
 
JollyRoger said:
It is. Corporations are considered people in America. There needs to a murder charge filed against this lawyer.

I will point out that this corporation was conceived in Massachusetts and lived its short life in New York. Both of those states have notoriously strict gun control laws. The little tyke had no chance of defending itself.
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Well at least it wasn't sold into slavery to another corporation
 
This is a shrewd move by the Romney campaign to draw attention back to him now that he's lost some momentum.
 
Syterion said:
This is a shrewd move by the Romney campaign to draw attention back to him now that he's lost some momentum.
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There is no proof yet as to why this mysterious company (W Spann LLC) has filed a certificate of cancellation after a few days of donating 1 mill. So the blame isn't on Romney's former aides that had created Restore Our Future (Super PAC).

One can speculate that the mysterious company was created by one of his opponents. Or maybe something else...
 
Maybe George Soros. If so, a nifty trick to show that 95 members of the Supreme Court can miss policy implications that are more properly to be considered by Congress.
 
JollyRoger said:
This nonsense pretty much undercuts all the noble-sounding rationale the majority of the Supreme Court used when they were legislating from the bench in Citizens United.
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un-legislating, or, de-legislating ;)

but I do have a question, did CU allow corps etc to donate whatever they want while individuals still have a 2k limit?
 
I wonder if guilt-by-association on this type of donating will overpower the benefit of donations? Or, is the voting base disinterested in anonymous donations to their own team?

Beautiful OP, JR. Thanks
 
Is this corporation guy even American, though? I think we need to see his birth certificate. Why aren't they showing the certificate? Why not just put all this uncertainty to rest unless he has something to hide?

Could this person potentially be a Kenyan corporation? Perhaps this guy has ties to terrorist corporations?
 
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