A new legal complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission alleges that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee used state chapters as strawmen to circumvent campaign donation limits and laundered the money back to her campaign. The HVF would also allegedly disburse funds to up to 40 state parties at the same time, and those parties would send the money back within 24 hours. “The money would be deposited in the states first, and transferred to the DNC shortly after that. Backer says the committee hopes its findings will spur campaign finance reform and an investigation by the Department of Justice. “It’s really cut and dry,” he says, “but it shouldn’t matter that it was Hillary Clinton and the DNC that did this.

Source: Fox News December 19, 2017 16:18 UTC