This criminal conspiracy involves the knowing and willful creation of coordinated expenditures from prohibited corporate sources. As is detailed numerous times in the
Veritas transcript, attached as EXHIBIT A, the supposedly independent speech and actions of third-party groups were directed, controlled, or puppeteered by HFA or the DNC. Indeed,
the record establishes not just simple violations of the FECA's coordination provisions, but ongoing knowing and willful evasion of federal election law requirements
through a complicated scheme. Because this conspiracy involves large numbers of employees, heightened travel, production, and distribution costs and because of the
nationwide scale of the operation, upon information and belief, this triggers criminal penalties under 52 U.S.C. ยง 30109(d)(1)(A)(i).
By failing to abide by the law, these respondents misled the public about the true identity of speakers and funding sources for political protests and advocacy campaigns.
This sort of evasion undermines the public's trust in the electoral process and allows elite political operatives to operate above the law.
