Roger Sollenberger
2/21/24
(Daily Beast) Playing with house money. Nevada Republican senatorial hopeful Sam Brown is accused of unlawfully coordinating with a super PAC during his failed 2022 primary bid, according to an FEC complaint from watchdog End Citizens United, obtained exclusively by Pay Dirt.
“Sam Brown is a walking campaign finance violation,” End Citizens United president Tiffany Muller said in a statement to The Daily Beast, alleging Brown “repeatedly violated anti-corruption laws” intended to prevent wealthy donors from exerting outsized political influence.
“It appears that he organized a scheme to channel his big donors to a super PAC that supported his campaign in an effort to circumvent federal limits on campaign contributions,” Muller said.
The complaint, which the group filed with the FEC on Wednesday evening and lives online here , asks regulators to investigate evidence that Brown was involved in funding that super PAC, “Citizens for Nevada,” which supported his candidacy. FEC records show that all of the super PAC’s donors were also maximum donors to Brown’s campaign. Additionally, the super PAC’s sole fundraising consultant also worked for the Brown campaign, which was by far its largest client; one of the two members of that consulting firm is now the financial director for Brown’s 2024 campaign, the complaint says.