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By donate to individual candidates I assume you mean to their campaigns (and subject to limits). Because as the parent poster correctly pointed out, giving mone
by JamesianP 4y ago
By donate to individual candidates I assume you mean to their campaigns (and subject to limits). Because as the parent poster correctly pointed out, giving money to them personally is illegal. The laws are pretty strict about bribery and candidates can't touch campaign funding for personal use.
- tptacek 4y agoHe's technically right: corporations can't donate to candidate general funds or leadership PACs. But he's substantively wrong: corporations obviously do donate to candidate general funds and leadership PACs. They do so by forming employee-funded, management-directed PACs, which can contribute directly. Again: you'll see these in the receipts list of any major candidate, as Rayiner well knows.
- JamesianP 4y agoBeing technically right is important when being wrong can land you in prison. This is a story about such a criminal law being enforced, after all. Odd place to be arguing that such laws are meaningless. Here's the law ATT (through their contractor or whatever) violated: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=072000050HArt%2E+33&ActID=1876&ChapterID=53.&SeqStart=85500000&SeqEnd=86600000 https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=0720... "A person commits bribery when: (a) With intent to influence the performance of any act related to the employment or function of any public officer, public employee, juror or witness, he or she promises or tenders to that person any property or personal advantage which he or she is not authorized by law to accept;"
- tptacek 4y agoIf your goal is simply to personally stay out of prison, I agree: do whatever Rayiner tells you.