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Registered with the FEC as the campaign committee of Rep. Mike Collins. This cycle it has given $2K to 1 sitting member of Congress — 100% to Republicans.
Filed contact: DATWYLER, THOMAS, Treasurer
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He's been investigated in five states. He was convicted felon George Santos's alleged "shadow treasurer." His resume includes a $159,000 FEC settlement, being the target of a criminal probe by the Mississippi Attorney General, and at the center of a Department of Justice wire fraud complaint.
Now he's the lone name on an Alabama "Values" PAC attacking five members of the Alabama House Republican Caucus.
By design, we will only truly be able to find out who's paying him through disclosures made just 24 hours before it stops mattering.
Yet, it's just another tool of the trade for Wisconsin-based political operative Thomas Datwyler.
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He's been investigated in five states. He was convicted felon George Santos's alleged "shadow treasurer." His resume includes a $159,000 FEC settlement, being the target of a criminal probe by the Mississippi Attorney General, and at the center of a Department of Justice wire fraud complaint.
Now he's the lone name on an Alabama "Values" PAC attacking five members of the Alabama House Republican Caucus.
By design, we will only truly be able to find out who's paying him through disclosures made just 24 hours before it stops mattering.
Yet, it's just another tool of the trade for Wisconsin-based political operative Thomas Datwyler.
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Over the past month, GOP voters in five Alabama legislative districts have been bombarded with mailers, texts, and digital ads attacking their incumbent state lawmakers.
The targets are State Sens. Greg Albritton (R-Range) and Andrew Jones (R-Centre), and State Reps. Frances Holk-Jones (R-Foley), Matt Simpson (R-Daphne), and Phillip Pettus (R-Killen).
The disclaimers all point to a single source, Alabama Values PAC, registered with the Alabama Secretary of State on March 12, 2026 to a rented mailbox at a UPS Store on Eastchase Parkway in Montgomery.
Its Statement of Organization lists exactly one person in any official capacity, as both chairperson and treasurer. Thomas Datwyler, of Hudson, Wisconsin.
Datwyler doesn’t live in Alabama. He doesn’t vote in Alabama. He has no Alabama client besides the PAC currently spending money to defeat five Alabama Republicans.
His firm’s website claims he has directed more than 400 political committees and filed “over 4,000 FEC reports” since launching 9Seven Consulting in 2013.
Datwyler’s professional record is a matter of public record. Across the past three years, his work as treasurer has triggered formal action in five states – civil penalties, criminal investigations, federal regulatory inquiries, and a U.S. Department of Justice complaint.
Some matters closed without findings. Others resulted in fines paid by the campaigns he was running.
His record, in five states, is as follows:
Indiana
In March 2024, U.S. Senator Mike Braun’s (R-Indiana) Senate campaign paid a $159,000 Federal Election Commission civil penalty to settle campaign-finance allegations. Datwyler was the campaign’s treasurer at settlement. According to the FEC’s official record of the matter, three of six FEC commissioners voted against dismissing allegations against him in his official capacity – a 3-3 deadlock that resolved in his favor only because the Commission requires a majority to proceed.
Mississippi
In August 2023, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch publicly opened an investigation into Datwyler personally for potential criminal violations of state election law. The complaint alleged he had used a PAC structure to route approximately $885,000 in out-of-state money around Mississippi’s contribution limits — while simultaneously serving as treasurer for the campaign of the candidate that PAC was supporting. The case closed without charges.
Tennessee
In 2024, Tennessee election authorities referred a complaint involving a Datwyler-tied PAC to the state attorney general’s office. The case closed without conclusive findings — after, according to the Tennessee Lookout, Datwyler refused to be interviewed.
Nevada
In July 2024, a Republican PAC tied to U.S. Senate candidate Jim Marchant filed a U.S. Department of Justice complaint accusing Datwyler of wire fraud. According to The Hill, the complaint alleged Datwyler had written an unauthorized $500 check from PAC funds to his own firm after stepping down as treasurer. The complaint described “a long history of running roughshod over federal campaign finance law.” No charges have been filed.
New York
In January 2023, former U.S. Rep. George Santos’s campaign listed Datwyler as its new treasurer. Datwyler’s lawyer immediately told the FEC the appointment was unauthorized and asked the agency to refer the matter to law enforcement. Ten months later, after The Daily Beast reported Datwyler had in fact functioned as Santos’s “shadow treasurer” — the same lawyer filed letters retracting that account, writing he had lost confidence in his own client’s truthfulness.
Santos, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft and was sentenced in April 2025 to 87 months in federal prison — a sentence commuted by President Trump in late April — has himself called for a federal investigation into Datwyler.
Alabama
This is not the first time Thomas Datwyler’s name has shown up on Alabama paperwork at the moment somebody needed an Alabama PAC and didn’t want to be seen running it.
In 2024, Datwyler was the registered treasurer of Defend Alabama, a Club for Growth-tied super PAC that spent in the bitter Alabama 1st District GOP primary between Reps. Barry Moore and Jerry Carl.
In late 2025, when former Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron, who had registered to vote in the state three days earlier, launched a brief bid for lieutenant governor, Datwyler was listed as the campaign’s treasurer. Two months later, McCarron dropped out.
Under Alabama law, a PAC spending to influence a legislative race must report its activity monthly, then weekly in the four weeks before the election, then daily in the final eight days.
Alabama Values PAC’s last required filing before the May 19 primary lands at 12:01 p.m. the day before. The question of who is paying Thomas Datwyler to smear five Alabama Republican incumbents will be answered only when it no longer matters.
Grayson Everett is the editor in chief of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @Grayson270.
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State Reps. Matt Simpson (R-Daphne) and Phillip Pettus (R-Killen) hit Alabama Values PAC with formal cease-and-desist demands this week, calling its mailers “outright false, deliberately misleading, defamatory, and libelous.”
The twin letters, dated May 12 reviewed by Yellowhammer News, were drafted by Opelika attorney Algert S. Agricola Jr. and arrived in the PAC’s email inbox one week before the May 19 Republican primary.
Pettus’s letter goes for the throat.
Addressed to Wisconsin operative Thomas Datwyler, the PAC’s listed chairperson and treasurer, at the UPS Store mailbox in Montgomery and by email that serves as the group’s address, the letter walks through three specific bills the PAC mischaracterized in its “Phillip Pettus’ Priorities” and “Phillip Pettus A Record of Failure” mailers, as well as on a companion microsite, phillippettusvotingrecord.com.
On HB210 — the bill at the center of the “free college for illegals” charge Agricola is uncompromising: “This is a baldfaced lie.” The letter cites the bill’s plain text barring undocumented students from “any postsecondary education benefit, including, but not limited to, scholarships, grants, or financial aid,” notes Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter has publicly condemned the same claim, and observes that the bill “never became law and never authorized a single dime of taxpayer money for illegal immigrants.”
On HB227, which the PAC framed as “Legalized Gifts to Politicians from Lobbyists,” the letter says the bill in fact “strengthened ethics laws by criminalizing the use of public office for personal financial gain, enhancing bribery penalties, increasing transparency, and requiring audits.” Agricola calls the PAC’s framing “a grotesque inversion of the bill’s actual purpose.”
On HB16, framed as “Early Parole for Violent Felons,” the letter says the bill addressed court discretion on cash bond — not parole — and notes Pettus, a career law enforcement officer, voted for and supported Aniah’s Law in 2022.
“These statements are not matters of opinion,” Agricola wrote. “They are verifiable lies that your PAC has chosen to broadcast to thousands of Alabama voters in a deliberate and malicious attempt to deceive the electorate and damage Rep. Pettus’ reputation.”
Because the PAC has continued running the claims after they were “publicly repudiated by the Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, among numerous others,” the letter argues, its conduct now constitutes “actual malice and meets every element of defamation under Alabama law.”
The demand is sweeping. Pettus’s letter requires the PAC to cease and desist immediately, scrub the materials from its website and social media within 24 hours, issue a public retraction “in the same manner and to the same audience as the original false mailers” — approved in advance by Pettus’s counsel — and provide written confirmation of compliance within five business days.
Failure to comply, the letter warns, will trigger civil litigation for compensatory and punitive damages, injunctive relief, and attorney’s fees, along with referrals to the Alabama Secretary of State, the Alabama Ethics Commission, and the Alabama Attorney General’s Office “for investigation of potential violations of election and campaign finance laws prohibiting false statements intended to influence elections.”
Copies went to all three regulators.
“This is not a request,” the letter closes. “It is a formal legal demand. You have been warned. We expect your full and immediate compliance.”
Simpson’s letter, sent the same day to the same address and directed to a “Robyn Riga” listed as a contact, identifies the four false claims that have been hitting mailboxes in House District 96: “Free College for Illegals,” “Legalizing Bribes for Elected Officials,” “Early Parole for Violent Felons,” and “Higher Taxes on Firearms.”
“None of these accusations is correct,” Agricola wrote. “Matt Simpson is a prosecutor who works with the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office to send criminals to jail. Matt Simpson is a proven conservative member of the Alabama House of Representatives whose legislative votes reflect his conservative values.”
The letter demands Simpson’s accusers immediately cease and desist, publicly retract, and notify every household that received the false mailers — and warns that continued dissemination after being put on notice will support a finding of “actual malice in disregard of the truth” in court.
The retreat came one day after Alabama Legislative Services Agency Director Othni Lathram confirmed in writing to Pettus that HB210 addressed enrollment eligibility only and carried no taxpayer funding for the students in question. The bill passed the House in 2024 with the support of 63 of 75 Republicans and never became law.
Alabama Values PAC was registered with the Alabama Secretary of State on March 12, 2026, weeks before the mailers began landing in voter mailboxes.
Campaign filings show the Alabama Values PAC received roughly $134,000 in April from Freedom Forward Alliance, a Virginia-registered entity with no publicly identifiable leadership.
Simpson faces Danielle Duggar in House District 96. Pettus faces a primary challenger in House District 1. The Republican primary is May 19.
Sawyer Knowles is a capitol reporter for Yellowhammer News. You may contact him at sawyer@yellowhammernews.com.
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Yahoo News – Wicker Perlis (Jackson Clarion-Ledger) | Published: 8/4/2023
The treasurer for the lieutenant governor campaign of state Sen. Chris McDaniel is under investigation by the office of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch. A press release did not mention the McDaniel campaign directly, naming Thomas Datwyler, a Wisconsin-based political consultant who serves as the campaign treasurer, and Invest in Mississippi, a PAC Datwyler created in July. It is against the law for campaigns and PACs to coordinate or communicate with each other.
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Even if one were to believe erstwhile candidate Chris McDaniel’s incomplete, conflicting, shifting accounting of hundreds of thousands in secretive campaign donations, it still begs the question: Where did the $15,000 go?
It also begs the question: Why is Attorney General Lynn Fitch overlooking what appear to be flagrant violations of campaign finance law by McDaniel, instead only going after his out-of-state campaign finance chairman and less-clear allegations?
Longtime state Sen. Chris McDaniel’s failed run for lieutenant governor is one for the record books. Primarily, it saw record amounts of out-of-state, secretly sourced campaign money pumped into his campaign and related state PACs. It also saw allegations of flagrant violations of state campaign finance laws and reporting requirements, and has led to calls for reform by multiple statewide elected officials.
Mississippi law says a candidate or state political action committee can accept no more than $1,000 a year from a corporation.
McDaniel, running for lieutenant governor this year, created a state PAC that accepted $475,000 from a mysterious Virginia-based dark-money corporation, the American Exceptionalism Institute.
McDaniel’s PAC then funneled $460,000 of that money to his campaign. It made up the vast bulk of his bankroll as he kicked off his campaign early this year.
But his initial PAC reports appeared to obfuscate this. For starters, he reported the PAC had collected hundreds of thousands of dollars the year before it was legally created, with no sources listed for the donations. After multiple revised reports, it became clear the PAC had received $475,000 from AEI.
Eventually, after questions from Mississippi Today and complaints to the attorney general by his opponent incumbent Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, McDaniel said he was returning the money to AEI.
Problem is, by McDaniel’s own accounting, his PAC only returned $460,000 to the corporation.
What happened to the other $15,000?
Mississippi voters will likely never know. His final “termination-amended” report for his PAC gave no accounting. And Fitch appears to have closed the book on that complaint.
And despite laws that require candidates to divulge the sources of campaign donations, they’ll likely never know the original source of the $475,000 from the American Exceptionalism Institute, which has pumped millions of secretly sourced dollars into campaigns across the country.
They’ll also likely never know all the sources of the total of nearly $1 million more pumped into a separate PAC that McDaniel’s Wisconsin-based treasurer created in the eleventh hour of the 2023 race to run TV attack ads on Hosemann.
McDaniel has said he knows very little about the finances of his PAC or campaign, and as he faced questions about them over months, he often chalked problems up to “clerical errors” and provided few other comments.
But in a statement for this article, he refuted that $15,000 remains unaccounted for.
“As a candidate, I have no involvement in the financial operations of any committee or PAC,” McDaniel said. “But I’ve been advised that all the money from the (American Exceptionalism Institute) was refunded.”
McDaniel has refused to answer what he knows about AEI or why it would pump nearly half a million dollars into Mississippi’s lieutenant governor’s race. Little information on AEI is available online, and efforts by Mississippi Today — and several other media outlets over years — to contact the organization or find more details have been fruitless.
When he announced he was returning the money, McDaniel said he believes Mississippi’s corporate donation limit laws are unconstitutional and would fall to a legal challenge. But he said he did not have time or resources for such a challenge, so he was giving it back.
McDaniel has referred to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court Citizen’s United ruling in 2010. It held corporations and PACs can spend unlimited amounts on broadcasts and communications related to an election, provided they act independently of any candidate.
But courts have also upheld state limits or bans on corporate donations to campaigns or state PACs. Only five states allow unlimited corporate campaign donations, while 23 ban them. The other 22 set some restrictions on corporate donations.
Mississippi’s campaign finance laws are seldom enforced, and allegations of violations seldom investigated. The state’s laws regulating a politician’s campaign cash and reporting appear to fall under a special Oops Doctrine. If a campaign accepts an illegal contribution or makes a glaring omission or mistake on a report, it can typically avoid investigation or prosecution by giving the money back, amending reports or filing them later. Few other laws offer this escape.
But typically, these appear to be legitimate mistakes and oversights by large campaigns for far smaller donations. They are typically flagged by the campaigns themselves, the money returned promptly and the transactions duly noted on finance reports.
McDaniel’s PAC and campaign appear to have held onto AEI over-the-limit money for months, and its reporting was confounding. At one point, McDaniel’s PAC reported it returned $460,000 to AEI on the same day it received $237,500 from the corporation. His many amended reports have been difficult to follow.
READ MORE: Chris McDaniel’s reports deny accurate public accounting of campaign money
Mississippi Today first raised questions about McDaniel’s campaign finances in February, and Hosemann filed his first legal complaint with the attorney general’s office in March. For months, AG Fitch’s office’s only response was, “We are looking into it.” This prompted calls for investigation and enforcement. Secretary of State Michael Watson at the Neshoba County Fair called for lawmakers to give his office campaign enforcement authority. He said, “When people do not do their jobs, I will stand in the gap for Mississippians” — a clear dig at Fitch.
Amid this pressure, just days before the primary election, Fitch announced she was investigating the separate PAC run by McDaniel’s campaign treasurer. The Invest in Mississippi political action committee was created in July by Wisconsin political operative Thomas Datwyler, who McDaniel also listed as his campaign’s treasurer. Datwyler has a history of running afoul of Federal Election Commission campaign finance rules with several congressional campaigns.
Datwyler’s PAC ran ads against Hosemann late in the race, fueled by at least $885,000 in donations from out of state super PACs. Hosemann’s campaign had filed another complaint late in the race that the PAC-to-PAC donations were an attempt to dodge the $1,000 corporate donation limit, and that the PAC cannot claim it is independent of McDaniel because it’s run by his campaign treasurer.
READ MORE: Out of state PACs dump dark money into McDaniel’s lieutenant governor’s race
In a statement announcing the investigation, Fitch said, “The people of Mississippi should be able to expect that those who participate in our electoral process will not seek to exploit this careful balance and step over that line, and in this instance, there is evidence to suggest that has occurred here.”
Fitch did not mention McDaniel in her announcement of the investigation, but a spokeswoman for her office later indicated the office was also investigating another complaint raised by Hosemann.
READ MORE: Fitch says she’s investigating PAC run by Chris McDaniel treasurer
But the spokeswoman also said another earlier complaint had been looked into and closed. This, the Hosemann campaign confirmed, was the original complaint about McDaniel’s PAC, the campaign and the $475,000 AEI donation.
Fitch’s office has declined comment on why it would not pursue the original complaint, including where the unaccounted-for $15,000 went. McDaniel appears to have acknowledged violation of the campaign donation limit laws, saying repeatedly he would likely win a legal challenge of the law.
Many political observers have surmised Republican Fitch is loathe to go after complaints about McDaniel for fear of angering his conservative base in the state GOP. Fitch’s office has faced some complaints of failing to fulfill responsibilities of the office, instead focusing on big headline-grabbing national issues and cases.
READ MORE: Chris McDaniel, Lynn Fitch show that Mississippi might as well not have campaign finance laws
In a statement, Hosemann spokeswoman Leah Smith said: “When our opponent received $475,000 from the corporation and returned only $460,000, we contend a violation of the campaign finance laws occurred. It was impossible to determine what happened with those funds because accounting was so poor throughout, in addition to all of the other violations. We anticipate a number of legislators will be enthusiastically interested in reform this year and our office is, too.”
McDaniel, who after his defeat for lieutenant governor will be vacating his state Senate office in January after 16 years, was once himself a vocal champion for campaign finance reform and more transparency for voters of the source of politicians’ money. His latest campaign’s legacy, it appears, may be an invigorated push for reform.
In his victory speech on primary election night, Hosemann said: “When you have this much dark money pumped into a race — almost $1 million in the last week — it screams for reform. We are going to listen to those screams.”
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May 8, 2026 — Audaces LLC was registered in Sheridan, Wyoming, in August 2025 at 30 N. Gould St., a commercial registration address used by thousands of LLCs ...Read more
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Audaces LLC is a low-profile consulting firm registered in Sheridan, Wyoming (at a commercial mass-registration address on 30 N. Gould St.) that surfaced in state-level Republican primary election campaign finance disclosures. The entity became a point of political controversy over outside spending and "dark money" messaging in GOP races. 
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Overview of Audaces LLC in Political Filings
- Registration: Formed in Sheridan, Wyoming, in August 2025. Alabama Political Reporter
- Address: Uses a prominent commercial registered agent office address in Sheridan utilized by thousands of remote or out-of-state corporate entities. Alabama Political Reporter +1
- Transparency: The company maintains no active public-facing website or visible local footprint, functioning primarily as a backend corporate vendor. Alabama Political Reporter
Connection to GOP and Campaign Spending
- Campaign Disbursements: Financial disclosure and tracking reports revealed that Audaces LLC received substantial payments (totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars) from conservative and agricultural-backed political action committees, including farm/agricultural PACs and outside messaging groups. Alabama Political Reporter +1
- Electoral Impact: Funds routed through the company were tied to digital consulting, media placement, and direct mail programs used during intra-party Republican primary fights, drawing scrutiny from political opponents and local watchdogs regarding the transparency of campaign funding sources. Alabama Political Reporter +1
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less than two weeks after publicly pledging not to accept “dark money,” Maurice McCaney, a Republican candidate for Alabama House District 1, promoted a television attack ad tied to a political spending network that routed money through organizations with undisclosed funding sources and an obscure Wyoming consulting company.
McCaney, a Florence attorney challenging incumbent state Representative Phillip Pettus in the Republican primary, posted on Facebook in mid-April, “I won’t take ‘dark money,’ and I won’t try to buy votes with it either.”
Days later, McCaney used the same campaign account to share a television ad attacking Pettus over his legislative record.
The ad appeared as part of a broader political campaign targeting several incumbent Republican lawmakers through television advertising, direct mail, text messages and campaign-style websites criticizing incumbents who supported allowing Alabama voters to decide gambling legislation.
APR reviewed several advertisements and mailers connected to the broader campaign and found claims that were misleading and, in some cases, inconsistent with public legislative records. The claims against Pettus, for example, included numerous exaggerations or falsehoods, including an accusation that he supported early release for violent felons while citing his support for a bill that changed the cash bail system for people arrested for nonviolent crimes.
APR has previously reported on the political committees and consulting firms connected to those attacks, including the role of Alabama Values PAC, a newly formed political committee registered to a rented mailbox inside a UPS Store in Montgomery.
State disclosure filings reviewed by APR show Alabama Values PAC quickly became a major spender in Alabama Republican primary races this spring.
A substantial share of the PAC’s funding came from Freedom Forward Alliance, a Virginia-based organization whose original funding sources are not publicly disclosed in Alabama records.
Public documents reviewed by APR show little publicly identifiable political activity connected to Freedom Forward Alliance beyond similar attack campaigns in Arkansas earlier this year.
In Alabama, Alabama Values PAC focused heavily on incumbent Republican lawmakers challenged by candidates endorsed by Alfa Farmers Federation.
Although Alfa has publicly denied any connection to Alabama Values PAC, financial disclosure reports show both Alabama Values PAC and Alfa’s political arm, Farm PAC, made substantial payments to the same consulting company, Audaces LLC.
Audaces LLC was registered in Sheridan, Wyoming, in August 2025 at 30 N. Gould St., a commercial registration address used by thousands of LLCs nationwide.
Despite receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars connected to Alabama political campaigns, Audaces has virtually no public-facing presence. APR could identify no company website, publicly listed executives, published client list or prior political consulting history associated with the LLC.
APR also could not identify previous Alabama campaign work publicly connected to the company before 2025.
Disclosure reports show Farm PAC paid Audaces nearly $250,000 in April alone.
Many of those payments were listed as in-kind contributions supporting specific candidates endorsed by Alfa. One filing reported a $22,535 in-kind contribution through Audaces benefiting McCaney’s campaign.
Other Alfa-backed candidates also received substantial support routed through Audaces, according to state filings. Those candidates included Terry Waters, who received $53,669 in reported in-kind support; Amy Minton, who received $90,149; Danielle Duggar, who received $26,737; and Joseph Freeman, who received $24,991.
During the same reporting period, Alabama Values PAC paid Audaces nearly $115,000 for services listed as digital consulting, direct mail and media placement—categories directly associated with political advertising operations.
Disclosure reports reviewed by APR do not establish which specific advertisements, mailers or websites were financed through the various payments made to Audaces.
However, records show the same consulting company appeared repeatedly throughout both spending operations during the closing weeks of the Republican primary campaigns.
APR previously asked Alfa about its relationship with Audaces. A spokesperson said Alfa had worked with Audaces for “more than 20 years” and said the organization’s political expenditures were properly disclosed and consistent with its public endorsements of candidates.
Public business filings reviewed by APR, however, show Audaces LLC was not formally registered until August 2025.
APR also submitted detailed questions to McCaney about his public opposition to dark money and the campaign support disclosed through Audaces.
McCaney did not respond to APR’s emailed questions.
No illegal or unethical conduct has been alleged, and the expenditures and donations reviewed by APR appear to comply with Alabama campaign finance laws.
Still, the overlapping financial relationships among Alabama Values PAC, Freedom Forward Alliance, Farm PAC and Audaces LLC highlight the growing role of outside political spending networks in Alabama legislative primaries, where PACs and consulting firms can spend heavily while revealing little about the original source of the money.
It remains unclear who ultimately financed the broader attack campaign, what specific services Audaces provided to the various political organizations, and whether voters will ever receive a fuller accounting of how the money moved through Alabama’s Republican primary races.
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Bill Britt is editor-in-chief at the Alabama Political Reporter and host of The Voice of Alabama Politics. You can email him at bbritt@alreporter.com.
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Wyoming secretary of state conducts audits of commercial registered agents
On March 18th, the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office conducted several targeted, in-person audits of commercial registered agents, including the location of 30 North Gould Street in Sheridan, Wyoming. "Our administration takes fraud and abuse of corporate filings extremely seriously, and the office works to ensure compliance by Wyoming business entities and commercial registered agents with Wyoming law,” Secretary of State Chuck Gray said in a statement. “These targeted, in-person audits of large commercial registered agents are an important part of ensuring compliance with Wyoming law, and our office also conducts regular audits to ensure compliance with the Commercial Registered Agents Act.”
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There’s a new spinoff on exploiting Wyoming’s trust laws that give business entities some of the nation’s strongest privacy rules, and this time it comes with a mix of limited liability corporation (LLC) filing laws.
Over the last few years, Fremont County Assessor Tara Berg said she’s been investigating an influx of out-of-state businesses filing with the state as LLCs to addresses in her county. Wyoming has some of the most lenient and private corporate business filing laws in the country and some of the lowest associated fees for LLCs at $65.
Practices like these have sparked the term “cowboy cocktail” to describe the way people and corporations can spend and move their money with nearly complete secrecy.
An out-of-state company may not transact business in Wyoming until it gets a certificate of authority from the Wyoming Secretary of State. Non-resident owners must appoint a registered agent with a physical address in Wyoming to comply with legal and state requirements.
But what happens when that business isn’t really conducting business in Wyoming and is potentially using that filing to hide information about itself from other state governments?
That’s the dilemma Berg has been concerned about.
“I just feel like right, wrong and indifferent, something has to change with how we’re doing this and how we’re asking,” Berg told the Legislature’s Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee on Monday.
For one quarter, Berg’s office sent out more than 200 business verification letters to addresses to confirm business associations, and from those got 20 responses from homeowners saying their addresses were used without permission.
A Tangled Web
One was a 95-year-old man in Dubois who expressed concern someone was trying to steal his identity.
Another was Lander resident Christy Kimber, who had her Precision Dirt Works business address hijacked by a mysterious Ubazone Ecom LLC. Kimber told Cowboy State Daily she’d like the state to do more cross-checking to ensure a business actually uses the address it claims it’s connected to.
“I don’t understand how someone could just parade around like they own it and file it with the secretary of state,” Kimber said. “It’s just really frustrating.”
Berg revealed a vacant lot behind Lander state Sen. Cale Case’s personal business has also been targeted, which doesn’t have a real address associated with it.
Other fake addresses were used by property owned by the town of Shoshoni and Wyoming Catholic College.
Rep. Jeremy Haroldson, R-Wheatland, said he sees this activity as “fraudulent at a high level” and plans to investigate it on a local level.
When Berg further investigated Ubazone, she navigated a maze of third-party LLC registration firms based in Casper and Cheyenne that all circled back to each other. She told Cowboy State Daily the firm Republic Registered Agent LLC of Casper was most commonly behind the fraudulent use of addresses.
Berg said what also drew her attention to the activity was the filing of a significant number of COVID-19 business claims by people who didn’t have any businesses registered with them to the state.
Some Know About It
In late 2022 and early 2023, Berg’s office began noticing a significant increase in the number of businesses registered to one specific address in Lander, which was listed as a principal address.
Their initial investigation revealed there was an actual homeowner and registered agent at the property who told Berg’s staff he could not provide any information about any of the businesses associated with his address, of which none were actually his or located there. He also referred to this business arrangement to Berg’s staff as a “side hustle.”
Further investigation revealed an escalating trend of outside corporations listed to this address, she said, with 26 in 2019, 77 in 2020, 79 in 2021, 119 in 2022 and 216 in 2023. Through the first quarter of 2024, 34 businesses filed to it. In total, 551 different businesses are now registered to the address.
Berg said there’s an even more egregious example in Sheridan for an address with around 800 businesses associated with it. In that city alone, there were 16,000 corporations registered so far this year, a highly questionable sum considering that only 19,235 people live in the town.
Berg said the Lander man wouldn’t talk to her about the businesses registered to his address, a rejection she didn’t have a problem with. What she did find concerning is that situations like these call into question what being a registered business agent really means in Wyoming.
In conversations with the secretary of state’s office, Berg was told if people formally file an affidavit with the state that their address has been improperly used, the state will dissolve the business.
Investigations like the one Berg performed are not being done throughout Wyoming, however, as many assessors don’t have the staff or resources to do what she did. Because of this, she questions how many people know their address is being used and if so, know to file an affidavit about it.
There is no address lookup option on the secretary of state’s office website for property owners to determine if their address is being used if they don’t already know it is. Also, determining who would prosecute this issue and what jurisdiction it falls under is hazy at best, she said.
What’s The Motivation?
There’s a few likely motivations for companies to file their businesses in Wyoming even though they don’t do any actual real business in the state.
The most basic is to conceal their identity, as Wyoming’s LLC laws allow third parties to file on behalf of a company.
The other is to evade paying taxes.
Wyoming Director of Revenue Brenda Henson told Cowboy State Daily she finds it highly suspicious that many companies are filing sales tax licenses in Wyoming, but the large majority never remit any sales taxes.
“It gives them credibility as a Wyoming company and there’s really nothing we can do,” she said.
This has resulted in her department sending thousands of notices to these companies that go unanswered.
Also, Georgia law firm Smith Barid explains on its website that even a single-member LLC is entitled to charging order only protection in Wyoming. What that means is that if a judgment is entered against a member of a Wyoming LLC, the judgment creditor cannot force any distribution of the assets of the LLC and will be liable to pay income taxes on any income of the LLC even if it's not distributed.
Tax Burden
Berg said she doesn’t necessarily want the state to change its $65 rate to file, but questions based on what she’s seen if the lenient laws are coming at the expense of Wyoming taxpayers.
“I’m not saying that maybe we can’t keep some of our corporate stuff, I’m saying I’m seeing a really big overload of filings that we can’t get a handle on,” Berg said. “While the income looks good, I’m not really sure what that does to the state of Wyoming.”
But the income may not even be as virtuous as it seems.
Any business that registers in Wyoming must report its business assets for taxation purposes. The corporation fees for Wyoming-based businesses are based on the assessed value of their property and assets. For out-of-state businesses, their fees remain at $65, as it’s not possible for the state to assess their properties.
“Is that fair?” she questioned the committee.
When contacting Wyoming Discount Registered Agent Inc., a third-party LLC agent associated to the Lander address, owner Adolph Stankus of Nevada, refused to provide Berg with any information about the actual people running businesses that are associated to the address, but told her he would forward the tax information requested to them, to which she declined.
Berg said of the corporations that have transferred into Wyoming, around 800 in Fremont and Sheridan counties were from Nevada.
There’s a similar service based in Sheridan called Wyoming Registered Agent Services LLC, with 16,941 businesses filed at its address.
Berg doesn’t believe agents like Stankus aren’t doing anything illegal, but said that actual Wyoming businesses are being put at a disadvantage when it comes to their tax burden.
Rep. Mike Yin, D-Jackson, disagreed and pointed to Wyoming state law, which says the principal-listed office of an LLC must be the actual main office for the business. Wyoming law states that a registered office is also required to be a street address located in Wyoming that must be a physical location where the business entities’ registered agent or a natural person who has an agency relationship can accept services for the business.
Because of this, Yin believes all the filings Berg referenced are fraudulent and liable to be dissolved by the state.
Accountability
Case said that Wyoming could pass legislation requiring out-of-state businesses to prove they are associated with the addresses they list and on Monday arranged an informal working group to keep exploring the issue. Berg said the state could do this with documents like a deed or rental agreement or permission they’ve been given to use an address.
Cheyenne attorney Scott Meier cautioned the committee against infringing on personal civil liberties if it makes any legislative changes based on the issue. When he serves as the registered agent for his clients, Meier said he informs them they are not allowed to use his address as a principal office. He said the business filing forms in Wyoming could be better clarified on this point.
But when pressed by Case, Meier agreed that the purposeful use of incorrect addresses is fraudulent.
“That’s clearly more than just a mistake,” Meier said. “It could be but … I would be very suspect of that as well.”
Secretary of State Chuck Gray has been taking a more aggressive approach to this issue than the previous administration, performing at least 12 random business audits per quarter, which he said has resulted in some findings of significance. He encourages the state’s assessors and any member of the public to immediately contact his office if they see fraud.
“This is a huge priority of our administration,” he said.
Leo Wolfson can be reached at leo@cowboystatedaily.com.
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...The Conservative Groups Who Funded the Arizona “Audit”Records we previously obtained, reported on by Grid News, show the American Voting Rights Foundation (AVRF) — one of many organizations that channeled money to different efforts associated with the Big Lie — helped fund the Arizona Senate’s partisan “audit.”
- On July 28, 2021, Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who had assisted with Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the election, wrote an email to AVRF treasurer Tom Datwyler, Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan and “audit” spokesman Randy Pullen.
- “Tom — Randy and Doug are sending invoices to wire $ to some AZ entities from American Voting Rights Foundation,” wrote Mitchell in an email we obtained. “Randy / Doug —… Can you please work with Tom to get the funds out today where the funds need to be sent?”
- The next day, Mitchell sent another email indicating that AVRF had transferred $1 million to three groups and/or people associated with the Arizona “audit.”
- Learn more about other groups who have funded the Big Lie and how they’re being investigated, here.
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Former President Donald Trump made a “secret” $1 million donation to the election audit conducted in Arizona following his false claims that the election was stolen from him, the Guardian reports.
The audit was requested by Arizona GOP senators, and doubted by many of their colleagues due to the “wild conspiracy theories” it mirrored. An assertion “that bamboo fibers found in ballot sheets proved they had been printed in Asia” even caused some local GOP members to deem the probe a “grift disguised as an audit.”
But nevertheless, the audit persisted.
Although eventually proven baseless and unsuccessful, The Guardian reports that “one of the largest benefactors” behind this attempt to counter the 2020 election results remained a secret for nearly two years.
But watchdog group “Documented” was able to track funding for the failed assessment and eventually landed on Trump’s super PAC, Save America.
First, the group discovered that Cyber Ninjas, the Florida company that conducted the audit, was provided $5.7 million by far-right groups, and then given an additional $1 million from former Trump advisor and attorney Cleta Mitchell.
Still, questions around the origin of the $1 million remained unanswered.
TheNew York Timesreports that in September of 2021, “unnamed ‘officials,’” as well as Arizona GOP senators who requested the election audit, adamantly denied Trump’s contribution.
However, with its research on many corporate, tax and campaign finance filings, as well as emails and text messages between Trump allies that were obtained by nonpartisan accountability group American Oversight, "Documented" managed to counter those claims.
The Guardian broke down the process of how the watchdog group traced the donation back to Trump.
Like many incidents surrounding Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020, tracing back Trump’s contribution to the audit starts with the Jan. 6 committee.
READ MORE:Arizona secretary of state urges criminal probe of Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election results
The committee’s final report mentioned that Trump super PAC, Save America, donated $1 million to the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) — led by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows — but did not disclose the origin or the reason for the money.
Further research revealed that Trump’s contribution possibly began around June 2021, as accountability group American Oversighttracked text messages between retired Army officer and “arch election denier” Phil Waldron and Doug Logan, CEO of Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based company that conducted the audit.
Waldron texted Logan, “Kurt is going to talk to 45 today, about $.”
According to the Guardian, “Kurt” likely referred toKurt Olden, an “election denying lawyer.” He continued, “Mike L talking to Corey L,” referring to CEO of MyPillow and devoted Trump supporter Mike Lindelland Trump campaign manager Corey Lewondowski.
READ MORE:How Trump's toxic presence in Republican state party politics is being entirely underestimated
A couple of weeks later, Waldron asked Logan if he had received a $1 million payment from Lewondowski. He texted, “Supposedly Kurt talked to Trump and they got 1 mil for you,” but he noted he “couldn’t verify who sent and received.”
According to The Guardian, the Federal Election Commission reported that less than two weeks later, on July 26, 2021, Save America transferred the $1 million to CPI. Two days later, a new group, American Voting Rights Foundation (AVRF) “registered as a corporation in Delaware.”
CPI donated $1 million to AVRF — the group’s first and only donation — in 2021, and although the date of donation is unknown, the clear relationship between the groups, the “timing and amounts” of the transfers, as well as the revealed text messages between Trump allies all leads to one culprit: Trump.
Furthermore, on the day AVRF registered as a corporation, Trump attorney Mitchell emailed Cyber Ninjas CEo Loganand put him in touch with the audit spokesperson, Randy Pullen as well as AVRF treasurer Tom Datwyler.
The Arizona Republic recently confirmed that Trump was notified of the process the whole time
GOP vice-chair of Maricopa County board of supervisors Bill Gates told The Guardian he is “disappointed, but not surprised” by the revelation.
“At the very least, it is highly hypocritical for the Arizona state senate to have allowed the audit to be funded in this fashion,” Gates said.
Ultimately, even after the great lengths Trump and his cohort of election deniers went to assist in the audit, the goal to overturn Arizona's election was never met. The Guardian reports that in 2020, President Joe Biden won Maricopa County, the most populated in Arizona and where the audit took place, by 45,109 votes.
Regarding the morality of the audit, Gates added that Arizona law states, “electoral candidates are not allowed to fund vote recounts which have to be financed with taxpayer dollars.” And although the audit was “technically not a recount,” it’s clear the intent was the same.
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Arizona’s Criticized Election Review Nears End, but Copycats Are Just Getting Started
The inquiry into the 2020 vote, derided as a badly flawed partisan exercise, has already spawned imitators in other states.
Contractors examined and recounted ballots in May as part of an audit ordered by the Arizona Senate.
Published Sept. 23, 2021
Updated Oct. 1, 2021
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the Arizona Senate are expected on Friday to unveil the results of the deeply flawed review they ordered into Democratic election victories last November in the state’s largest county.
The study, conducted by Republican loyalists and conspiracy theorists, some of whom previously had called the election rigged, has long since lost any pretense of being an objective review of the 2020 election. It focuses on the votes that saw President Biden narrowly win the state and elected a Democrat, Mark Kelly, to the U.S. Senate, and its origins reflect the baseless Republican claims of a stolen election.
But regardless of the outcome, the effort in Arizona has already inspired copycat efforts in other states still poring over the results from an election nearly a year old. And it has become a way to keep alive false claims of fraud and undermine faith in the 2020 election and democracy itself.
In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, for example, Republican-dominated Legislatures have ordered Arizona-style reviews of the 2020 vote in their states, sometimes in consultation with the same conspiracy theorists behind the Arizona investigation.
The speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, Robin Vos, ordered the inquiry in June days after former President Donald J. Trump lambasted the Legislature for not pursuing fraud claims. He expanded it in August, allotting $680,000 in tax dollars, a week after a private meeting with Mr. Trump. The Pennsylvania inquiry, announced in July, began in earnest last week with a demand for information on every voter in the state.
David Deininger, a former Republican state representative and judge in Wisconsin who served on the state’s Government Accountability Board, said the stakes extended well beyond the 2020 election. “Because of the fanfare and notoriety of these investigations, people are beginning to lose confidence in the fairness and accuracy of election results,” he said.
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cyber Ninjas' ties to Trump during Arizona election 'audit' revealed in messages
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Former President Donald Trump publicly kept his distance from the review of Maricopa County's 2020 election. But inside Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, his influence loomed over critical aspects of the "audit," according to messages sent and received by the man leading the ballot recount.
New records show Trump received direct updates from people at the coliseum, his allies pressured the lead contractor on when to report findings, and that contractor asked people close to the former president if he could help pay for it. This all happened as leaders of the state Senate publicly denied Trump had any involvement in their effort.
While messages from those working on the audit indicate they intentionally kept the president at arm's length to avoid the appearance of his influence, behind the scenes they sought Trump's approval — and money.
In April 2021, four days before the election review began, Cyber Ninjas founder Doug Logan used a private messaging system to discuss taking a donation from Trump and his team surreptitiously.
"I told them there was no way I could take funds directly," he said in the chat.
Once the audit concluded and the now-defunct Cyber Ninjas was millions of dollars in debt, Logan would lament that Trump never did directly fund his work.
"It's my understanding that our underfunded status is known all the way up to 45," Logan wrote to a subcontractor in a conversation about how to pay everyone. "Never talked with him, but I've been told the message has been received."
Presenters of the report on the election audit, from left, Ben Cotton, the founder of CyFIR, Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas and Randy Pullen, the audit spokesman, look on before the start of the presentation to the Arizona lawmakers in the Senate chambers of the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Sept. 24, 2021. David Wallace/The Republic
Logan has released tens of thousands of personal messages he sent to supporters and subcontractors involved in the audit in response to ongoing lawsuits from The Arizona Republic and a left-leaning watchdog group based in Washington, D.C., called American Oversight.
The messages reveal for the first time how Logan worked with Trump allies to help finance the work, shape media coverage and manage day-to-day operations as teams worked to hand count 2.1 million ballots cast by county voters.
Logan for months fought the release of his personal messages, which The Republic first sought through state Public Records Law. But after a $50,000-a-day sanction for noncompliance and exhausting all appeals, Logan’s lawyer has turned over many — but not all — text and Signal messages Logan sent and received while working on the audit.
Logan on Tuesday declined to comment on the pleas for money he made through extensive communication with Christina Bobb, a former Trump lawyer and conservative broadcaster who served as a go-between for the former president.
Arizona Senate Republicans hired Cyber Ninjas to recount and inspect ballots, and the so-called "audit" confirmed President Joe Biden’s win in the state and made no concrete findings of wrongdoing by election officials. But for months it served as a marketing tool for politicians who campaigned on unproven accusations that the election was compromised.
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Senate Republicans said from the outset that Trump did not push for the audit and did not provide any assistance for it, financial or otherwise.
Former Senate President Karen Fann, a Prescott Republican who hired Cyber Ninjas, repeatedly said the effort was not done to put Trump back in the White House.
"This absolutely has nothing to do with Trump," Fann wrote in an email to a constituent days after the audit began in 2021. "The election cannot be overturned. This audit is ONLY about election integrity, answering their questions, and hopefully proving there was nothing wrong with the election."
She reacted with surprise Jan. 19 to the newly released messages when contacted about them by a reporter. When the audit began, she said, she did not know the extent to which Trump allies were involved.
"I did not know," she said. "Since then I have now connected the dots. ... Obviously, in the subsequent months, it was very apparent."
Trump was watching, chatting with broadcaster
Several references in Logan’s messages indicate people in Trump’s circle were closely watching Maricopa County and reporting back to the former president, who they sometimes referred to as “45.” Trump was the nation's 45th president.
Logan in the messages discussed Trump’s interest in the work with Bobb, who was given broad access to the election review while working as a personality for the right-wing OAN Network.
Former One America News Network anchor Christina Bobb speaks at a Blake Masters election integrity event on April 30, 2022, in Chandler. Megan Mendoza/The Republic
Bobb worked in the Trump administration as an appointee in the Department of Homeland Security. She left in early 2020 to join OAN. But after Trump lost the 2020 election, Bobb volunteered to help his legal team challenge the results and was with his team until the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to her testimony to the congressional committee that investigated the attack.
Shortly after Trump's loss, she helped coordinate a meeting in Arizona at which Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani suggested the election was compromised.
Bobb continued to work as a personality for OAN and began covering the Arizona audit, where she messaged frequently with Logan. She also helped raise money for the audit through her connections to Trump and his organization.
Other media were restricted to a small press box in Veterans Memorial Coliseum — when they could get into the building at all.
Bobb at one point told Logan she would ask the Trump organization for recommendations for a lawyer to help with the audit because Logan didn't like the lawyer recommended to him at the time.
On June 19, 2021, Logan asked Bobb if Trump would pressure Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward to donate some of the money she was raising off the audit to the actual work, which he said she had not done. Bobb said Trump liked Ward because she was an "outspoken media personality" and was unlikely to push her to fund the audit.
In this series of messages, Doug Logan talks about audit funding with Christina Bobb. Logan, founder of Cyber Ninjas, turned over tens of thousands of personal messages in response to lawsuits. Text Messages Provided To Arizona Senate By Doug Logan
Logan followed up, asking if Trump could press people to donate to the nonprofits set up to fund the audit.
"I will ask him. He shies away from publicly supporting the audit. I will raise the money issue with him next time we talk," Bobb responded.
Then on June 25, Bobb discussed funding with Logan, telling him that a wire would come from “Sidney" from Defending the Republic. Trump lawyer Sidney Powell raised money after his loss through a nonprofit by that name.
“I reached out to her and she didn’t take my call. I’ll try again. If she doesn’t answer, I’ll have Trump call,” Bobb wrote to Logan.
Months later, Logan would report that Powell's group donated $550,000 to his work.
Bobb said in a recent interview with The Republic that she didn’t officially join the Trump team until April 2022. But she did communicate with Trump about the audit.
“I knew that he was very interested in the audit,” she said. “I was never officially communicating anything on behalf of anybody.”
Often, Trump just wanted more detail than what she had shared in her news stories, Bobb said.
She said she never received funding for the audit from Trump or any organization affiliated with him.
“He was not involved in funding. I did ask. It was a no,” she said.
Messages sought updates on counting, funding
In May 2021, as the work passed the one-month mark, Logan messaged with a man named Patrick Weaver who worked on the audit. Weaver was affiliated with The America Project, one of the groups that funded Logan’s work beyond the $150,000 paid by the state.
“Any total count numbers you can give me for Abby to give to Trump?” Weaver wrote to Logan on May 25, 2021. The identity of "Abby" is unclear.
In this message, Patrick Weaver asks Doug Logan for an audit update to provide Donald Trump. Logan, founder of Cyber Ninjas, turned over tens of thousands of personal messages in response to lawsuits. Text Messages Provided To Arizona Senate By Doug Logan
Logan responded with an update on the counting.
In July, Logan messaged with Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel who worked with President Trump’s chief of staff after his 2020 defeat to concoct ways Trump might stay in office.Waldron said Trump had planned to send $1 million to the audit, but Logan said he had not received it.“Payment – 1 mil – supposedly Kurt talked to trump and they got 1 mil for you,” Waldron wrote to Logan. The identity of "Kurt" is unclear.
How we got here:An Arizona election audit timeline
Fann unaware of some connections to Trump
Fann acknowledged that Bobb and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani "called several times" before the audit began as part of an effort to call the election into question. But said she did not "know anything else that was going on in the background" of the ballot count.
Arizona needed the audit to assure voters there was no chicanery in the numbers, Fann said.
"My job was to make sure we had an honest election in Arizona," she said.
She confirmed Trump called her "a couple of times" to discuss the audit as it unfolded. She said she didn't recall him trying to exert influence over the process, but rather he asked about it.
"He told me, 'Thank you for doing this,'" she said.
Even as Bobb reported on and raised funds for the election review — and her network was selected to livestream camera footage from the coliseum — Fann said she believed Bobb was acting only in her capacity as a news host, not a Trump surrogate.
Senate President Karen Fann takes notes with a pen during a meeting about the audit the Arizona State Senate in Phoenix on July 15, 2021. Joseph Cooke/The Republic
'Is God really going to come through?'
Logan's lawyer has redacted several messages between him and Bobb sent during this time, despite clear orders from Arizona courts to turn over everything. Still, some of the unredacted messages show Bobb held out her connection to Trump as a way to influence Logan, who was desperate for money.
"Is God really going to come through in funding this thing?" Logan wrote to Bobb on June 26, 2021.
She replied: "I don't know what he's going to do, but I know in the end we win. I don't know how we get there. But yes, in the end it will all workout."
Logan told her that day he needed about $4.8 million more to complete the audit.
"I'll raise with 45 again next time we talk," Bobb replied.
The next day, Bobb messaged Logan asking if the Senate would issue a news release with his preliminary findings. Contractors had finished counting and inspecting ballots at the coliseum a few days before. It would be months before Logan made a final report.
"I'm getting a lot of concerned people calling me saying the audit will lose credibility if there isn't some type of announcement tomorrow," she wrote.
In this text message, Christina Bobb asks Doug Logan about a potential announcement about the audit. Text Messages Provided To Arizona Senate By Doug Logan
Logan didn't want to issue preliminary findings. He pushed back.
"That wouldn't be the case if there wasn't so much fake news that a number was expected tomorrow," he told the reporter.
Bobb lashed out.
"I strongly suggest you don't blame me for fake news," Bobb wrote. "I STRONGLY suggest that."
Bobb didn't pretend to be an independent observer about the ballot review.
"Remember we're on the same side," she wrote to Logan. "If you want to fight me, we both will lose."
Bobb said in an interview Jan. 19 she was pressuring Logan as a reporter, not on behalf of Trump.
“They needed to release the numbers. I remember that,” Bobb said. “I was holding him to the same standard that I was holding the election officials. Why don’t we have a result on election night? My personal opinion is when you are done counting, if you don’t release the numbers that looks sketchy. I’m not accusing anybody of doing anything wrong, but it raises a lot of questions.”
Asked whether she thought Logan did a good job on his final report, she said, “I don’t have a comment on that. I like Doug Logan. I think he’s great.”
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Fann: 'We did not do this for Trump'
Fann sought to distance herself from Logan's fundraising efforts. She said it was clear when Logan said he needed to raise up to $5 million to pay for the audit that the money wasn't going to come from the Senate.
She said she did not know about any outreach to Trump or any other potential sources. Fann said her involvement with finances stopped with the Senate's authorization of audit expenses, which included $150,000 for Cyber Ninjas.
The audit has cost taxpayers so far about $5 million, the bulk of which came from Maricopa County. That includes legal fees it spent fighting with the Senate over access to voting information and the cost of new tabulation machines needed once the audit was completed.
Fann said the Senate's audit was a way to stand up for voters.
"We did this to do the right thing," she said. "We did this to answer questions. We did not do this for Trump."
Republic reporter Justin Price contributed to this article.
Reach reporter Ryan Randazzo at ryan.randazzo@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4331. Follow him on Twitter @UtilityReporter.
Reach reporter Robert Anglen atrobert.anglen@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8694. Follow him on Twitter @robertanglen.
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PHOENIX(AP) — The Republican leader of Arizona's state Senate said Monday he has handed over records related to the 2020 presidential election to the FBI in the latest sign that the Trump administration is acting on the president's longstanding falsehoods about a race he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Senate President Warren Petersen said in a social media post that he complied “late last week” with a federal grand jury subpoena for records related to a controversial audit of the election in Maricopa County that had been ordered by legislative Republicans.
“The FBI has the records,” Petersen said.
He did not immediately respond to requests for additional comment, and a spokesperson for Senate Republicans said in an email that Petersen “does not have anything to add outside of his X post at this time.” The FBI office in Phoenix did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It marks the second time this year that the FBI has obtained records related to the 2020 election from the most populous county in a presidential battleground state, both of which Trump lost as he sought reelection. In January, the FBI seized ballots and other records from Georgia's Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, after the Justice Department sought a search warrant from a judge. The search warrant affidavit showed that the request relied on years-old claims, many of which had been thoroughly investigated and found to have no connection to widespread fraud.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, issued a scathing statement in response to Petersen's post, noting that multiple audits, independent investigations and legal challenges related to the 2020 presidential election found no evidence of widespread fraud that could have affected the outcome.
“Warren Petersen knows all of this. He has known it for years. He spread false stories of election fraud in 2020, and he remains an unrepentant election denier,” Mayes said. “What the Trump administration appears to be pursuing now is not a legitimate law enforcement inquiry. It is the weaponization of federal law enforcement in service of crackpots and lies.”
A firm hired by Republican lawmakers spent six months in 2021 searching for evidence of fraud in the previous year's presidential election, a process experts said was marred by bias and a flawed methodology. It explored outlandish conspiracy theories, such as dedicating time to checking for bamboo fibers on ballots to see if they were secretly shipped in from Asia.
The audit ended without producing proof to support former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election — and in fact found that Biden received 360 more votes than stated in the certified results for Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix.
The firm, Cyber Ninjas, also acknowledged that there were “no substantial differences” between its hand count of the ballots and the official count.
Previous reviews of the 2.1 million ballots by nonpartisan professionals who followed state law found no significant problem with the 2020 election in Maricopa County, which was run by Republicans then and now. Biden won the county by 45,000 votes and went on to win Arizona by 10,500 votes.
Federal officials took different routes to obtain election records in the two states. The Georgia case involved a judicially-approved search warrant that required the FBI to articulate grounds that probable cause exists to believe a crime was committed. In Arizona, the FBI relied on subpoenas, a law enforcement maneuver that does not require judicial sign-off or for prosecutors to assert that there’s probable cause of a crime.
The investigations into the 2020 election come as the Justice Department has clashed with a number of states, including some controlled by Republicans, over access to detailed voter data that includes names, dates of birth, addresses and partial Social Security numbers. Election officials have expressed concerns that providing the information would violate both state and federal data privacy laws, and that it could be used to remove people from state voter rolls.
Arizona is among the states the Justice Department has sued to obtain the voter information. Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, suggested that at least some Maricopa County voter files could be among the records Petersen gave the FBI. In a statement Monday, Fontes said his office was considering legal options “to secure personal voter information in the 2020 data that was shared.”
Calli Jones, a secretary of state spokesperson, said the office is assessing what was released to the FBI.
“This could be an end run by the Department of Justice to obtain unredacted voter files,” she said.
Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
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On Tuesday, in response to American Oversight’s public records lawsuit, the Arizona Senate released thousands of pages of records related to its partisan “audit” of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results. The document production comes on thecourt-ordered deadline of Aug. 31.
Included in the documents is information regarding audit payments as well as emails and text messages that audit officials and legislators exchanged with outside parties, including prominent Republicans, election conspiracy theorists and activists, members of Trump’s legal team, and others. American Oversight is still reviewing the contents of the records and will update this page with any additional findings. We are also still processing the documents, and will make them available on our website as soon as possible.
Prominent Republicans
According to an accompanying privilege log (which lists records that had been withheld because of legislative and other privileges), Senate President Karen Fann exchanged multiple texts with U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar in the spring regarding the investigation and its vendors. The new records also contain August emails between Fann and a member of Gosar’s staff regarding the release of the contractors’ final report. (Gosar appeared at the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters seeking to prevent the certification of the election.)
Records previously obtained by American Oversight included an April 22 email from Bruce Ash, the former national committeeman of the Arizona Republican Party, to Tommy Hicks, the co-chair of the Republican National Committee, in which Ash asked that the RNC help finance the defense against Democrats’ legal challenges to the “audit.” The latest records include more instances of audit allies attempting to get help from the national party: On July 17, audit spokesman Randy Pullen sent a text to Ash saying, “Need guns, lawyers, and money. Have any?”
The new records also indicate that Pullen was in touch with Reince Priebus, Trump’s first chief of staff and the former head of both the national and the Wisconsin Republican Party, as far back as December, before Pullen was officially involved in the “audit.” That month, Pullen texted Priebus to tell him about the potential for a “Forensic audit,” and in March asked Priebus for “suggestions on election audit firms.” (Priebus said he would check.) Another text from Pullen to Ash, sent on March 8, appears to reference Priebus: “I texted Reince and ask if he would like to help out on the audit,” Pullen said, then followed up to say they were speaking later that morning.
Conspiracy Theorists
The privilege log also indicates that top “audit” officials — including Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan, Senate Liaison Ken Bennett, and spokesman Randy Pullen — exchanged a number of emails with Shiva Ayyadurai, an election conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine activist whose Twitter account was suspended back in February.
The records released by the Senate include a signed contract between Cyber Ninjas and a “Dr. Shiva,” a name Ayyadurai goes by among his followers. The contract is dated Aug. 3, 2021, and was sent to the United Liberty Coalition, a Phoenix-based group of supporters of former President Trump.
During a recent interview on Steve Bannon’s podcast, Reince Priebus reportedly said that the Wisconsin Assembly would be bringing in Ayyadurai to assist in its own partisan investigation of the 2020 election.
Another conspiracy theorist who appears in the Arizona Senate’s documents is Gail Golec, who has adopted the language of the QAnon conspiracy in her election-undermining activism. According to the records, Golec exchanged text messages with Senate President Karen Fann on Aug. 24 following the news that Logan and other members of the Cyber Ninjas team had contracted Covid-19. Golec recommended that Logan visit a site to purchase the livestock drug ivermectin. (Text messages indicate that upon hearing the news, Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward also told Fann that she hoped Logan had “gotten some Ivermectin and Zithromax.”) Golec also exchanged texts with Bennett in April, in which Golec said that the National Guard needed to be deployed to protect the audit from Black Lives Matter and antifa.
The records also appear to reference conspiracy theorist Bobby Piton, who according to records previously obtained by American Oversight had emailed Arizona legislators in December, calling for a vote recount. Those previous records also contain emails in which both Bennett and Pullen responded to outside inquiries by saying that they didn’t know who Piton was or whether he was involved.
The new records contain texts exchanged by Pullen and Liz Harris, a former Republican state legislative candidate who has been organizing direct canvassing operations that experts warn could amount to voter intimidation. On Dec. 16, Harris forwarded to Pullen a Dec. 16 text from “Bobby” requesting multiple decades’ worth of detailed voter information from all 15 counties in Arizona, not just Maricopa. Harris’s canvassing operations have recently been in the news again, with Harris denying any formal connections to the audit.
Trump Lawyers and Allies
In December, according to records previously obtained by American Oversight, One America News reporter Christina Bobb — who later began raising money for the “audit” — provided Fann with purported “evidence” of voter fraud, writing that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had “asked me to send you these declarations.” The newly released records include a group text from March 31 involving Fann and Bobb, with Giuliani also included, in which Fann passes along a document with a title that began “Pres. Fann audit hiring.”
Another Trump lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, was also looped in on a number of communications, including an Aug. 2 email chain started by Scott Sigman, a Pennsylvania attorney who appears to be handling the issuing of checks related to the “audit.” Sigman emailed Mitchell, Logan, Pullen, and Thomas Datwyler (the treasurer of a group called the American Voting Rights Foundation) seeking signatures for payments.
Pullen also received a text on April 22 from Jeff DeWit, the former CFO of NASA who previously served as Arizona treasurer, in which DeWit said he was preparing to send $175,000 to Guardian Defense Fund, the organization set up as a legal defense fund for Gosar, state Rep. Mark Finchem, and former state Rep. Anthony Kern following their attendance at the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally. DeWit asked Pullen, who was the fund’s treasurer, where to send the money; Pullen responded that “200 would be better but take what I can get.”
The next week, DeWit asked Pullen about a group called Fund The Audit, which Pullen said was being funded by former Overstock CEO (and current election conspiracist) Patrick Byrne. DeWit asked whether the group was “ok to donate to,” adding, “Trump asking.” Pullen said yes, and that it had raised $1.2 million so far.
In May, Pullen asked whether DeWit was familiar with Jenna Ellis, a lawyer who had worked with Giuliani on Trump’s farfetched legal challenges to the election. And on July 19, Pullen asked DeWit to call him, saying that “arpaio has some information for 45” — likely a reference to former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and further suggesting that DeWit was relaying messages to the former president.
Audit Costs
The Senate originally provided $150,000 for the election “audit,” but in the months since the total cost ballooned to at least $6 million thanks to outside donations. Records included in Tuesday’s document production reveal how quickly the price tag rose: Among other payments, more than $400,000 went to private security contractor Law Enforcement Specialists, and the American Voting Rights Foundation sent $500,000 went to contractor CyFIR and $250,000 to StratTech Solutions. Another email from early August involving Sigman, Mitchell, and representatives of Wake Technology Services Inc., which left the operation in May, shows that AVRF wired $250,000 to Sigman to cover costs.
Other Records
Cyber Ninjas was hired by the state Senate in the spring, and questions remain about how the firm was selected, given its lack of election experience and previous statements by Logan in which he advanced conspiracy theories about voting machines. The privilege log indicates that communication between Logan and Fann began as early as Feb. 5, and texts released by the Senate on Tuesday include one from March 17 between Fann and a lobbyist who refers to “Doug.”
The newly released records also reveal that the deference to conspiracy theories and false allegations of voter fraud evident in Fann’s post-election communications has continued into recent months: On Aug. 23, Fann forwarded to Bennett, Pullen, and Logan an article about a report on missing Wisconsin ballots.
Finally, the new records also suggest that audit officials were in touch with former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who was hired to run the bogus election investigation initiated by Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. On Aug. 7, Pullen texted a “Justice Michael G” with “Three big political points.” In response, the recipient wrote, “these are helpful fundings [sic].” The week before, Christina Bobb had asked Fann if she could share her contact information with Gableman; Fann replied, “Absolutely of course.”
Litigation
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A conservative political treasurer associated with former Rep. George Santos’s(R-N.Y.) campaign was accused of wire fraud by a GOP super PAC in Nevada, according to a Justice Department complaint.
The Conservative Nevada Leadership PAC (CNLP) demanded the Justice Department investigate Thomas Datwyler, who has headed up the financial operations of dozens of Republican candidates and political committees in recent cycles.
Datwyler acted as a “shadow treasurer” for Santos’s brief reelection bid, despite previously disavowing his involvement to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the media.
CNLP, a fundraising group formed to back GOP primary Senate candidate Jim Marchant, accused Datwyler of using its funds to write a $500 check after he stepped down as its treasurer.
“Datwyler has a long history of running roughshod over federal campaign finance law and the regulations of the FEC, where he has repeatedly filed or caused to be filed false reports with the [FEC],” the complaint reads. “Datwyler’s knowing, willful, and intentional conduct, which has drawn repeated FEC fines, has and continues to cause substantial harm to our electoral process. As detailed below, Datwyler’s recent conduct has become even more out-of-control.”
According to the complaint, dated Friday, CNLP raised no money while Datwyler was its treasurer, between June and November of last year. The group received its first donation of $5,000 in December, after Datwyler had stepped down, though the group claims Datwyler wrote a check in February to his political compliance firm from the PAC’s account for $500.
“CNLP at no time authorized this expenditure, or the printing of this check to AxCapital,” the complaint continues. “Only after being caught did Datwyler state that he would issue a refund from AxCapital to CNLP. This activity by Datwyler was plainly illegal.”
Datwyler did not respond to a request for comment.
The Nevada complaint was written by Dan Backer, himself a veteran GOP political attorney and consultant.
“This is the most glaring and recent example of a pattern of misconduct spanning years,” said Backer, who accused Datwyler of having a reputation for skirting campaign finance law. “Multiple campaigns have expressed concerns and frustrations.”
Datwyler has racked up tens of thousands of dollars in FEC fines for campaigns he was involved with, including more than $20,000 in the 2022 cycle alone, according to the agency.
Backer explained that the extraordinary step of a Justice Department complaint was necessary because of the severity of the accusations and the fines already imposed on campaigns he has worked for.
“That’s doors that you’re not knocking, mail you’re not sending … and that’s just the fines,” he said. “This kind of thing is hurting our side of the aisle, and it has to stop.”
Datwyler has previously been affiliated with groups backing Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) and GOP Ohio Senate primary candidate Josh Mandel, among others.
In April, the Democratic-affiliated abortion rights group EMILY’s List called on the FEC to investigate Datwyler for failing to report ad spending in an Arizona House race.
Datwyler is already under criminal investigation in Mississippi, with state prosecutors alleging he may have broken state campaign finance law while backing a Republican lieutenant governor primary campaign in the state with his own super PAC.
His firm, Ax Capital Compliance, is owned by Republican political operation Axiom Strategies, the largest GOP group of its kind in the country. Axiom has consulted for numerous GOP campaigns, including those of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, and the presidential campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Axiom General Counsel Eric Brown defended Datwyler in a statement to The Hill, denouncing the allegations as “baseless attacks.”
“AxCapital is the premier political compliance firm and it’s no surprise it faces baseless attacks,” he said. “AxCapital seeks to uphold the highest level of commitment to its clients, and this letter doesn’t change that and is nothing more than a stunt.”
*Updated Aug. 4.
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