The Janet for Justice campaign (Janet Protasewicz) allegedly utilized illegal methods to fund their campaign, including using individuals’ names and addresses as money mules. This is an unethical practice known as “Smurfing”. The complaints submitted to the Wisconsin Ethics Commission reveal:
- Alleged individual false donations totaling $1,477,196.38
- Alleged campaign violations totaling $12,316,197.13
- Out-of-state funds account for approximately 57.33% of contributions
- A staggering 60,051 donations, with 38,169 donors and 239 contributing more than ten times
- A concerning 55.78% of contributions where occupations were either blank, listed as “not employed
- Massive data dumps of large donor information over a span of 16 days, totaling 27,256 entries
- Numerous donations exceeded the legal limit, with a total of $32,452.27 in excess
- Missing donor information amounting to $26,812, and missing street addresses totaling $160,456
- The most frequently used individual Smurf in the Janet for Justice Campaign, “Sean,” appears a whopping 75 times
- Video evidence of donors denying authorization for substantial contributions was recorded in the J4J campaign.
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How We Obtained The Information
The data on the enclosed includes: -campaign information from 1/1/2021 to current, -originated from official open sources, -consists of 182,524,799 (~182.5Million) individual contributor transactions bulk downloaded from www.fec.gov in 2-year increments as 2017-2018, 2019-2020, 2021- 2022 and 2023-2024 zip files. The 2023-2024 dataset was downloaded in mid-April 2023 and is as yet continuing to accrue transactions. Our Wisconsin dataset was downloaded from cfis.wi.gov during the first week of September 2023 and consists of 5,687,788 individual contributor transactions of all available types. These datasets were loaded into a website with an SQL database and subsequently sorted, counted, categorized, grouped, aggregated, summarized and cross referenced into various reports and statistics.
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