Mother Jones
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More than $5 million has been spent on television ads backing Marco Rubio’s presidential run—but none of it has come from the Florida senator’s campaign, or even the super-PAC formed to help elect him. Instead, all the spending has come from a dark money group that does not disclose its donors.
On Thursday, two campaign finance watchdog groups asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether the Conservative Solutions Project’s work on Rubio’s behalf is legal. In a letter to the tax division of DOJ, the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 allege that the group exists solely to support Rubio’s candidacy, in violation of its 501(c)(4) nonprofit tax status. That tax status allows the group to raise unlimited sums—it has raised over $18 million thus far—while keeping its donors secret.
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