Sen. Rand Paul’s 2016 Presidential Campaign Committee Fined by FEC

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The Federal Election Commission just fined Senator Rand Paul’s 2016 presidential campaign committee $21,000 for “improperly handling contributions.”

Fox News reports:

The penalty follows a 2016 complaint made by J. Russell Lloyd, the former chairman of the Louisville Democratic Party, according to a letter the FEC recently sent that was addressed to Lloyd, the Courier Journal reported Thursday. Lloyd died in February 2020.

The FEC said the committee didn’t refund or redesignate contributions of $165,749 within 60 days of former President Donald Trump winning the 2016 Republican nomination.

The FEC action isn’t insignificant, said Adav Noti, senior director and chief of staff for the nonpartisan Washington-based Campaign Legal Center.

“In the big picture, the FEC is legendary for not really penalizing anybody, so any penalty of significance from the FEC is noteworthy,” he told the Courier Journal. “And $21,000 — although it’s not a bank-breaker for a presidential campaign, it’s not nothing, either.”

So far, Se. Rand Paul hasn;t commented on the FEC fine.



  1. Sounds like political persecution to me. The Democrat Crime Organization is acting like the criminal thugs they are and using their Deep State Operatives to strike out at their opposition. They have so weaponized the Government and most of it’s agencies against the people I no longer trust the government.

      1. We don’t have to go after them for them to attack us. They have been quietly setting up U.N. Troop bases around the country. They are going to try and ram the U.N. Small arms treaty through the Senate soon. Guess who is going to be coming to search for and collect citizens arms.

        1. Where are the UN Troop bases?
          What country are the UN Troops from?
          Do they have black helicopters?
          What is the UN Small Arms Treaty?

          1. They are already setting up in Utah. The U.N. Small Arms Treaty is an agreement among member nations to remove all small arms from the hands of citizens of member nations that sign on to the treaty. You can’t enslave a people till you disarm them. Members of the Marxist Democrat Crime Cartel consider themselves Citizens of the World. They are only patriotic American citizens when it serves a purpose. Biden recently requested U.N. assistance in fighting systematic racism in America.

          1. They’re going to get hit by lightning alright, but it will be during the Tribulation when this earth is going to be under serious weather activities, displacement of tectonic plates, and many disruptions in the earth’s atmosphere. Men will quake with fear during the Great Tribulation and its very near.

        2. We knew this was coming as soon as the left got control. The UN is the One World Government organization that dictates to every nation, and takes away their constitution and freedoms.

          1. The only good thing is, U.N. Troops are often the worst disciplined and trained troops in the World. Every time they are sent in to get control of a situation the U.N. has to beg the U.S. to rescue them. Remember the incident in Somalia??? Most of the U.N. Troops are only good for Meals on Wheels.

  2. Why on earth would the Louisville Democrat party of hypocrites, feel the need to take this action? What possible difference could it make to them, and why did they go after this? Oh — silly me. I forgot the demented Democrats are going after every little insignificant thing they can possibly dig up, to continue to show their hate for our good President Trump and those who advocate for him! And their queen Hillary did lose to President Trump that campaign, so it’s part of their normal petulant, foot-stomping temper tantrums any time they don’t have their way! What a bunch of whiny, hypocritical children they are. To quote my buddy, Bugs Bunny, “What a bunch of maroons!” 🙁

    1. $165,000 is not insignificant.
      Hillary won the the General Election and lost the Electoral Collège election
      She was graceful in her defeat.
      Joe won both elections.
      “petulant, foot-stomping temper tantrums any time they don’t have their way!” is so Trumpian.

      1. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hillary LOST!!! And there was nothing graceful about Hillary and her defeat…she is still whining after 5 years! And ole demented corrupt Joe didn’t win anything…stealing an election is not winning! Maybe you should check out Cuba and Venezuela and see how the Democrats are going to bring that kind of Socialism into your life! Lets see if you stomp your foot when you lose your freedoms and your money and you can be sure they will take everything you own….wake up Albert Hess!!!

        1. Hillary won the General Election and graciously conceded the Electoral Collège Election, in a timely manner.
          You want me to be Woke?
          Joe got more votes than Don.

      2. Hillary lost, Trump won the electoral
        college. As for Biden well let’s just say
        the Dominion voting machines helped
        him win. Trump’s legitimate votes were thrown out by the USPS & biden was “given” illegitimate votes that were
        not valid votes, no water marks.
        BTW Hillary didn’t bow out gracefully, she’s still crying about it 4 1/2 yrs. later.
        It’s the bitch dems who throw tantrums
        like little kids when they don’t get their
        way. They said if Trump loses, he won’t
        leave we will have to force him out.
        Though Trump won, he did leave
        voluntarily. Dems lie through theIr
        teeth every day, as long as their lips
        are moving. They think that are getting
        away with their injustice but God will
        bring judgement on them for their evil
        deeds done to America & her citizens.

      3. She wasn’t graceful in defeat. She wouldn’t even come out to thank the people that worked for her campaign then she whined about the election being rigged for four years.

        1. To concede in a timely manner is gracious

          Hillary has made no claim of voter fraud in the 2016 election. Campaign fraud yes ,voter fraud, no.

      4. Hillary was NOT graceful, she was pouting and angry! She thought her time had come, the Clintons have been hanging around for years hoping to grab power again.

        1. Like all petulant liberals when they don’t get their way — stomping their feet and whining like a kid on the playground when somebody gets the swing they want!!! 🙁

      1. Trump was an honest President. He didn’t do anything evil to punish the innocent like the Democrats are doing! His policies were working positively 100%. You couldn’t have that could you?

        1. Trump was a week President.
          Hillary and Tony are not in jail.
          100% of 650,000 Americans are dead of Covid.

          1. Trump was stronger than any of the imbecile left, and President Biden has dementia and can’t think for himself. He couldn’t even pass a cognitive test and Trump totally aced it. You want to talk brains here reject?? Your buddies the CCP have helped the radical globalist left through every evil means possible!

    1. Trump and his DOJ thoroughly investigated Hillary.
      Trump was too weak to do anything about her.

        1. If Hillary lied Trump should have had her locked up, like he promised.
          Trump was too weak to pull it off. Hitler was strong.

          1. HITLER WAS TOTALLY DESTROYED….THANK GOD FOR THE UNITED STATES AND THE ALLIES! THE COMMUNIST’S DAY IS COMING AGAIN TOO.

  3. Did you ever notice that a Democrat politician never gets penalized? What a corrupt system our government is. The best thing that could happen is a bomb go off in Washington DC and ALL the politicians perish.

    1. In the last days good will be classified as evil and evil as good…everything is twisted and upside down until God comes to judge this earth and mankind for all the sins and corruption. Isaiah 5:20 There is a growing love of evil, while good is denounced. Isaiah 13:9 See, The Day of the Lord is coming, a cruel day with wrath and fierce anger to make the land desolate and destroy sinners within it. 11, I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their sins. People need to know the absolute truth of the times and prepare themselves.

        1. THE WORD OF GOD IS TRUTH, GOD WILL DESTROY EVIL WITH HIS MIGHTY SWORD, THE WORD OF GOD FROM HIS MOUTH…….THERE WILL BE NO SECOND CHANCES OR PERGATORY FOR EVIL.

  4. In other words do not speak badly about the Demo RATS or their cronies or they will find a way to make you pay with cash! Fauci and the thief in Chief can kiss my a$$!

  5. Biden took contribution from China. ..millions…where’s the angst from the FEC? Backdoor Biden gets off the hook for money laundering and FEC does a witch hunt on a meagre $21,000 against Rand Paul. Hey FEC that’s chump change compared to Joe Biden.

  6. So Senator Rand Paul refers Fauxi over for criminal investigation, and the response is for the FEC to fine him. Okay, we see how that works now. Keep doing what you’re doing Senator Rand Paul. You are shaking things up.

        1. Yes, the plan is to silence the truth so dictators can destroy the country and people won’t know whats really happening. No wonder you love Hitler.

    1. A Senator referring someone for criminal a investigation is meaningless, That is an executive Branch function. Trump had 4 years to investigate Fauci. The fact that Fauci is not behind bars is proof that Trump was a weak leader.

  7. This sounds more like an “I gotcha!” than a serious error! I doubt that
    Rand Paul is a thief or that he was trying to hang onto a few dollars, but this whole complaint seems to me to have been unnecessary and possibly deliberate!

      1. Romans 14:12….. “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”
        Isaiah 57:20 ….”But the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace saith my God, to the wicked.”

  8. Isaiah 5:21 Woe to those who are wise in their own sight, and clever in their own sight. They take bribes to let the wicked go free, and they punish the innocent. Genesis 6:5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually…..Recognize the Times.

      1. 2 Timothy 3:16. All scripture is (God breathed). and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. NO CONFUSION ABOUT WHAT THIS SAYS TO MANKIND.

  9. 5, 6 years later…..move it on; pretty sure democrats have a lot of skeletons in their closets when it comes to campaign donations/contributions….

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