Daily Beast:
New documents show Kanye West’s doomed White House campaign—styled as an “independent” third-party effort—appears to have disguised potentially millions of dollars in services it received from a secretive network of Republican Party operatives, including advisers to the GOP elite and a managing partner at one of the top conservative political firms in the country.
What I find interesting is that anyone is surprised. And just as they tried to hide the relationship and that their real purpose was to have Kanye act as a spoiler to ensure Trump’s re-election, they also did a crappy job with money:
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington [CREW] reviewed hundreds of campaign communications in court records, as well as Kanye 2020’s FEC filings. Communications director Jordan Libowitz concluded that the campaign bookkeeping was a “disaster,” despite the expert guidance from Holtzman Vogel, and the documents are “enough to raise an eyebrow and a red flag or two.”
As if the connections between Kushner and Kanye weren’t enough of a give away. WaPo (August 13, 2020).
All of this is coming to light because SeedX, a campaign subvendor, didn’t get paid and sued in the wrong Federal court. Who do we know that likes to not pay vendors?
The suit, brought by former campaign subvendor SeedX, alleges the company never got paid for months of campaign work, including building and maintaining the website and merch sales, which are counted for campaign purposes as donations. SeedX backs up those allegations with hundreds of pages of communications with campaign officials and contractors, indicating it engaged in several months of campaign work.
In this case, the key GOP player is Jill Vogel, wife of DC Lobbyist Alex Vogel. (Politico — reference is about halfway down the page.)
The article ends with the question of whether Kayne knew he was a tool or not.