Planned Parenthood Fined $116K for Failing to Report payments to Hillary Clinton and a Senate Candidate: Calling Out Double-Standards

Calvin Freiburger : Apr 5, 2018
Lifesitenews.com

The $38 million Planned Parenthood and its associates gave to candidates between the 2012 and 2016 election cycles was more than nine times the $4.1 million the National Rifle Association donated to current members of Congress since 1998, a sum to which the mainstream media have devoted significant attention in recent months.

(Madison, WI)—[LifeSiteNews.com] The Federal Elections Commission fined Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin for failing to report $116,898 in contributions to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Democratic Senate candidate Russ Feingold. (Image: Hillary Clinton-Planned Parenthood Award/via LifeSiteNews.com)

According to FEC documents, the abortion affiliate's political arm reported $133,305.04 in expenditures on its October 2016 quarterly report, but that sum included two payments of $58,449.04 apiece, dated August 31, 2016, but not submitted in any previous reports. One was a donation to Clinton, who lost to President Donald Trump, and the other a donation to Feingold, a former Wisconsin senator who unsuccessfully attempted to retake his old seat from Republican Ron Johnson in 2016.

The law requires individuals and organizations other than political committees to report all expenditures amounting to $10,000 or more within 48 hours. Planned Parenthood did not disclose those payments until two months after the fact. It told the commission that the omission was an honest error, the Washington Free Beacon reported...

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