Hillary Victory Fund / DNC Scam to Skirt Federal Campaign Finance Law Proven:

In a series of very serious accusations, Bernie Sanders has picked a fight with the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign. In mid-April of this year, Bernie's campaign raised the question of whether the Hillary Victory Fund (a joint-fundraising committee for the Clinton campaign, the D.N.C., and over thirty state Democratic Parties) may have committed “serious apparent violations” of campaign-finance laws. The accusations focused on the premise that even though the Hillary Victory Fund had raised money in partnership with state democratic affiliates for local candidates, less than 5% of the donated funds were actually making their way to each states democratic party with the Hillary Victory Fund keeping the lion's share of contributions for itself.

In a letter sent by Brad Deutsch, the Bernie Sanders campaign attorney, to the DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( Hillary's 2008 campaign manager ) suggests that money spent by the fund has benefited the Clinton campaign in a way that could constitute “an impermissible in-kind contribution from the DNC and the participating state party committees.” Mr. Deutsch continued that the Hillary Victory Fund “appears to operate in a way that skirts legal limits on federal campaign donations and primarily benefits the Clinton presidential campaign,”

Now, according to a report appearing on Politico the Hillary Victory Fund has " ... kept 99 percent of approximately $60 million it was supposedly raising for state Democratic Parties." The deal the state democratic party's had agreed to with the Clinton campaign allows for the first $2,700 raised by the Hillary Victory Fund to go to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The next $33,400 was to be earmarked for the DNC, and the remaining funds are meant for state Democratic parties. It was assumed under this agreement that the Democratic National Committee would spend the remaining balance helping each respective state party win down-ballot local and state-wide elections. However, after the original distribution, the Clinton campaign became the sole decider of what happened to the rest. According to the Politico report there have been several instances of the Hillary Victory Fund being the recipient of the majority of contributions that were supposed to go to state Democratic parties. The report cited two of the more blatant examples:

“…The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party received $43,500 from the victory fund on

Nov. 2, only to transfer the same amount to the DNC that same day. The pattern repeated itself

after the Minnesota party received transfers from the victory fund of $20,600 on Dec. 1 (the party

sent the same amount to the DNC the next day) and $150,000 on Jan. 4 (it transferred the same

amount to the DNC that day).

That means that Minnesota’s net gain from its participation in the victory fund was precisely $0

through the end of March. Meanwhile, the DNC pocketed an extra $214,100 in cash routed

through Minnesota — much of which the DNC wouldn’t have been able to accept directly, since

it came from donors who had mostly already maxed out to the national party committee.”

In the state of Wisconsin it was also recently reported that the Wisconsin Democratic Party was also used as a way for over $200,000 to be sent by Big Money contributors to the Clinton Campaign via the Hillary Victory Fund in what can be described at the very least an unethical way of getting around campaign donations limits. In a recent public statement, Bernie Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver commented on the back-room deal to cheat on federal campaign finance law, “It is unprecedented for the DNC to allow a joint committee to be exploited to the benefit of one candidate in the midst of a contested nominating contest.”