‘Flat Out Violation’: Democrats Broke Federal Law With Payments to Prohibited Immigrant, Specialists State

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The DSCC paid $500k to Antonio Valdovinos, a happy DACA recipient.

Chuck Ross • January 5, 2023 3:00 pm

Democrats paid numerous countless dollars to a consulting company run by a prohibited alien, which specialists state might have broken project financing laws.

Antonio Valdovinos, the owner of the Arizona-based La Maker Consulting, has actually made his status as a Deferred Action for Youth Arrivals (DACA) recipient main to his individual story. He takes pride in his “undocumented” status on his company’s site and produced an off-Broadway musical,”¡Americano!,” about life as a “Dreamer.” Valdovinos’s migration status might trigger an issue for the Democratic Senatorial Project Committee, which paid his company, La Maker Consulting, $500,000 to canvas in 3 battlefield states ahead of the 2022 midterm election.

The Federal Election Commission categorizes DACA receivers as foreign nationals for the functions of project financing laws, and states that foreign nationals can not “directly or indirectly” take part in the “decision-making process” of any project of political committees’ election-related activities. One veteran project financing attorney informs the Washington Free Beacon the DSCC’s contributions might have broken these laws.

“If the DSCC knowingly engaged a non-citizen/resident in a capacity that they are prohibited from participating in for federal election law purposes, then they ought to be held accountable,” stated Dan Backer, a project financing lawyer who represented the complainants in the landmark Supreme Court case, McCutcheon v. FEC

The FEC has actually currently flagged Valdovinos as a possible culprit of the project financing statutes. In 2021, the commission worked out prosecutorial discretion to dismiss charges versus Valdovinos for project financing offenses however said his company’s consulting work “raises the prospect that the company could provide the type of services that the commission has previously found resulted in prohibited foreign national contributions.”

“It’s a flat out violation of federal law, everyone knows it, but the exercise of prosecutorial discretion—even without any rationale for it—is almost completely un-reviewable by courts,” Backer informed the Free Beacon of the DSCC payments to Valdovinos’s company.

Valdovinos has actually worked for other federal prospects, though his DSCC agreement is without a doubt the biggest. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) paid La Maker $94,000 for petition signature event services in 2015, monetary disclosures reveal.

La Maker Consulting paid vote canvassers in Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia, according to the company’s social networks pages. Democrats won all 3 of the fiercely objected to projects. Sen.

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