Does Congressman Boehner Launder Campaign Money?
Registered lobbyists routinely serve as campaign committee treasurers and fundraisers for congressmen. In addition, instances of lobbyists and their clients making personal campaign contributions to congressmen whom they lobby, or from whom they receive earmarks for their clients, are commonplace and expected. I was unaware that congressmen make reverse contributions to the corporate PACs that give to the congressmen. But when I began looking at the money flows into and out of congressional leadership PACs this is exactly what I discovered. The focus of this brief study is upon the payments that Minority Leader John Boehner’s leadership PAC—Freedom Project—made to various corporate PACs during the last election cycle, as well as upon the contributions that the very same PACs made to Congressman Boehner’s own reelection committee, Friends of John Boehner. Congressman Boehner began the 2007-2008 election cycle with just under $400,000 in his political reelection fund, Friends of John Boe
