Feds Ask Marjorie Taylor Greene to Account for Over $3.5M of Unitemized Donations

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The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has asked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for more information about $3.5 million in contributions to her re-election campaign.

In two filings posted to the FEC website on Monday and surfaced on Twitter by Georgia Public Broadcasting reporter Stephen Fowler on Tuesday, the congresswoman's husband Perry Greene—her campaign treasurer— was asked to provide additional details about donations the campaign received during the first two quarters of 2021.

Between January and March, the Greene campaign received $2,558,631.61 in unitemized donations from undisclosed donors, while the campaign received another $967,045.73 in unitemized donations between April and June. The campaign reported a total of more than $4.5 million in donations during the same time period.

Candidates are not legally obliged to itemize donations or disclose the identity of their donors for contributions that total under $200 during an election cycle. For donations that do need to be itemized, campaigns must supply details including the name of the donor, the donor's address, occupation, employer and the date of the donation must be provided.

The FEC has given the Greene campaign until October 12 to provide clarification about the $3.5 million. To comply with FEC rules, the campaign must either provide information about the donors or show that the money came from small donors only—from at least 17,630 different individuals contributing no more than $199.99 each. Since the campaign has received a high volume of donations this year, it could have easily raised the $3.5 million strictly through small donations.

Greene's status as one of the most prominent supporters of former President Donald Trump and baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen" from him, as well as her remarks against COVID-19 vaccines and other public health restrictions, have made her a media fixture since she entered Congress in January. The attention likely played a role in increased contributions to her campaign, including the small donations.

Donations to Greene's campaign spiked earlier this year while she was embroiled in controversy over her comments and actions related to the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, as well as past remarks taken from her social media accounts. Greene used the controversy to appeal to her supporters for campaign contributions, while comparing herself to Trump in the process.

"Never before has a Republican been under attack like me since the Democrats tried to impeach and remove President Trump from office," an early February fundraising email from Greene stated, according to Talking Points Memo. "And without your support, I have no way of defending myself."

Newsweek reached out to Greene's office and the Greene campaign for comment.

TheBigPhilbowski on September 8th, 2021 at 14:32 UTC »

Here's a copypasta (posting unaltered below, except for updates for trump) that circulates to address the false equivalency you'll hear in response to posts like things - things like, "yeah, well... there's crimes "on both sides". It matters when one sides issues are relatively non-existent while the other basically holds criminal indictments as a brand.

If you've always heard people say that there "isn’t much difference between the parties" when it comes to bad behavior and felt that couldn't be true, read below. And keep in mind, this is just those in the administration, not all the down ballot republicans getting caught in hotel rooms with underaged boys, tapping toes in the airport bathroom, embezzling funds from their campaigns or getting raided for child pornography and underaged sex trafficking.

“I made a comment recently where I claimed that Republican administrations had been much more criminally corrupt over the last 50 plus years than the Democrats. I was challenged (dared actually) to prove it. So I did a bit of research and when I say a bit I mean it didn’t take long and there is no comparison. When comparing criminal indictments of those serving in the executive branch of presidential administrations, it’s so lopsided as to be ridiculous. Yet all I ever hear about is how supposedly “corrupt” the Democrats are. So why don’t we break it down by president and the numbers?

trump (r) - 4 yrs in office. from the Mueller investigation alone, 37 criminal indictments, 7 guilty pleas and 5 prison sentences. Most notable so far are manafort, gates, kilimnik, flynn, cohen, stone, papadopoulos, barrack. (Still actively developing - currently 13 active civil litigations against trump and 3 active criminal litigations ongoing as of 8/21)

Obama (D) – 8 yrs in office. Zero criminal indictments, zero convictions and zero prison sentences. So the next time somebody describes the Obama administration as “scandal free” they aren’t speaking wishfully, they’re simply telling the truth.

Bush, George W. (R) – 8 yrs in office. 16 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 9 prison sentences.

Clinton (D) – 8 yrs in office. 2 criminal indictments. One conviction. One prison sentence. That’s right nearly 8 yrs of investigations. Tens of millions spent and 30 yrs of claiming them the most corrupt ever and there was exactly one person convicted of a crime.

Bush, George H. W. (R) – 4 yrs in office. One indictment. One conviction. One prison sentence.

Reagan (R) – 8 yrs in office. 26 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 8 prison sentences.

Carter (D) – 4 yrs in office. One indictment. Zero convictions and zero prison sentences.

Ford (R) – 4 yrs in office. One indictment and one conviction. One prison sentence.

Nixon (R) – 6 yrs in office. 76 criminal indictments. 55 convictions. 15 prison sentences.

Johnson (D) – 5 yrs in office. Zero indictments. Zero convictions. Zero prison sentences.

So, let’s see where that leaves us. In the last 57 years... * Democrats have been in the Oval Office for 25 of those years * Republicans held it for 32. * In their 25 yrs in office Democrats had a total of three (3) executive branch officials indicted with one (1) conviction and one prison sentence. That’s one whole executive branch official convicted of a crime in two and a half decades of Democrat leadership. * In the 32 yrs that Republicans have held office over the last 57 yrs they have had a total of (a drum roll would be more than appropriate), 157 criminal indictments of executive branch officials. 96 criminal convictions and 39 prison sentences handed down. That’s more prison sentences than years in office since 1968 for Republicans.

If you want to count articles of impeachment as indictments (they aren’t really but we can count them as an action), in that time, the democrats have one (1) and the Republicans have three (3). Nixon resigned and was pardoned by Ford (and a pardon carries with it a legal admission of guilt on the part of the pardoned). So those only serve to make Republicans look even worse.

With everything going on with trump and his people right now, it’s a safe bet republicans are gonna be padding their numbers even more real soon.

Those aren’t “feelings” or “alternate facts.” Those are simply the stats by the numbers. republicans are, and have been for my entire lifetime, the most criminally corrupt party to hold the office of the presidency. So those are the actual numbers. Feel free to copy and paste!” – Kevin G Shinnick

Kaladin77 on September 8th, 2021 at 11:38 UTC »

Anybody sick of hearing these stories and nothing ever happens to these people.

LeozMJilliumz on September 8th, 2021 at 10:49 UTC »

Wait. So the ones who went to Washington to “drain the swamp” of corruption and lies are actually corrupt liars?!?! /s