Welcome, I just looked up whether “hush payments” have ever been determined in court to be “campaign expenditures”. After the Democratic VP candidate Jonathan Edwards case, (United States v. John Edwards (2012), it still has not been established that they are expenditures that need to be reported. So I will add that case to my post. Better yet, I will review the J. Edwards situation around July, or whenever the Trump appeal gets made. FEC Federal Election Commission issues to research, and issues as to the persons who made the payments issue: the candidate, the candidate’s attorney, or donors, or donors who happened to be part of the campaign. Does a payment made by an attorney who is not part of the campaign team constitute an election donation?

Welcome, I just looked up whether “hush payments” have ever been determined in court to be “campaign expenditures”. After the Democratic VP candidate Jonathan Edwards case, (United States v. John Edwards (2012), it still has not been established that they are expenditures that need to be reported. So I will add that case to my post.