Nonprofits Wield Some Serious Campaign Cash

Robert F. Bauer, general counsel for Obama’s campaign, called it at the time “a knowing and willful violation” of campaign disclosure laws and called on the Justice Department to take “prompt, vigorous action.”

A campaign watchdog group, Democracy 21, filed a complaint Oct. 10 asking the FEC and the IRS to investigate the conservative American Issues Project and the left-leaning American Leadership Project for possible campaign violations. Neither the FEC, IRS nor Justice Department has announced results.