Monday, July 4, 2016

Rule of Law Project Breaks the Law While Backing Wisconsin AG Schimel, Complaint Alleges

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/06/13118/schimel-rule-of-law-project-complaint
"Back in October 2014, Republican Wisconsin attorney general candidate Brad Schimel was neck in neck with Susan Happ when a mysterious dark money group, with the phony name "Rule of Law Project," dropped into the race with a huge ad buy backing Schimel. Now it appears the Rule of Law Project (ROLP) may have broken a few laws in its eagerness to elect an attorney general of its choosing. Yesterday, the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the IRS urging an investigation and alleging that the dark money group made false representations to the IRS. The complaint also sheds some light on who might be bankrolling the phony issue-ad group. The Center for Media and Democracy was the first to link the group to the Washington D.C. law firm of Boyden Gray and Associates. A founder of the Federalist Society and former White House Counsel, Gray is the chief architect of the 40-year attack on regulations protecting public health and the environment."