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<b><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/mitt-romney-nu-skin-mormon-church" target="_target">Steven Lund</a>,</b> the former president of Nu-Skin, a Utah-based vitamin-supplement-ointment direct marketer that has a <b>history of legal problems over accusations that it is a pyramid scheme</b>. He turns out to be the secret source of two, separate million-dollar donations to Romney's SuperPAC, one listed as coming from "F8 LLC" and the other from "Eli Publishing." While both "companies" reported that their business address was "Suite #420" in a Provo office building, there is no such suite, nor do the companies exist. Lund says he used the fake storefronts because he didn't want to draw attention to himself.

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<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">LUND, STEVEN J

PROVO,UT 84601</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">NU SKIN ENTERPRISES</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">4/17/2013</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">$2,600</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">Chaffetz, Jason</td>

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<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">LUND, STEVEN J

PROVO,UT 84601</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">NU SKIN ENTERPRISES</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">4/17/2013</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">$2,600</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">Chaffetz, Jason</td>

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<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">HARTVIGSEN, RICHARD

LEHI,UT 84043</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">NU SKIN ENTERPRISES</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">9/30/2013</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">$1,200</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">McConnell, Mitch</td>

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<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">LUND, STEVEN

PROVO,UT 84604</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">NU SKIN ENTERPRISES</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">9/17/2013</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">$500</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">Stewart, Chris</td>

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<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">HUNT, M TRUMAN

SANDY,UT 84092</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">NU SKIN ENTERPRISES INC.</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">7/31/2013</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">$500</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">National Republican Congressional Cmte</td>

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<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">HUNT, M TRUMAN

SANDY,UT 84092</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">NU SKIN ENTERPRISES INC.</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">7/30/2013</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">$500</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">Republican National Cmte</td>

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<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">WHITEHEAD, TYLER

PROVO,UT 84604</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">NU SKIN ENTERPRISES, INC.</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">12/10/2013</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">$500</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">Council for Responsible Nutrition</td>

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<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">WHITEHEAD, TYLER

PROVO,UT 84604</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">NU SKIN ENTERPRISES, INC.</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">3/19/2013</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">$500</td>

<td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">Council for Responsible Nutrition</td>

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