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I don’t understand why someone would do this. In Indiana, aren’t campaign contributions unlimited? Why would someone go to all this trouble to secretly funnel money to a candidate when they are allowed to give however much they want? If they want to hide their identities, why not just do it through a PAC?
OK, after further reading it appears individual and PAC contributions are unlimited, but corporations could only contribute $5,000 to a state senator’s campaign in 2016. So they were illegally donating more company money than was allowed, and trying to pretend it was coming from individuals. I still don’t understand why you wouldn’t just start a PAC (my company has one of its own), but that at least explains why this was illegal.
Brett was a state senator, but he left to run for Congress in 2016. So federal election laws applied. Those federal laws prohibit corporations from giving money directly to any candidate for federal office.