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Scott Adkins And Lewis Tan To Star In Siege Action Thriller ‘Deadlocked’; Film Mode Entertainment On Board For Sales
#Festivals #News #Brawler #CannesFilmFestival #CannesMarket #Deadlocked #LewisTan #ScottAdkins

https://deadline.com/2026/05/scott-adkins-lewis-deadlocked-1236901217/

In 2020, the #Trump campaign reported paying hundreds of millions of dollars to two companies, one set up by a former campaign manager and the other by campaign officials.
Neither the campaign nor the companies themselves reported specifically what the money was being spent on.
The #Campaign #Legal #Center filed a complaint to the F.E.C., accusing the Trump campaign of using the companies as “#conduits” to #conceal other vendors.
The commission’s #general #counsel recommended that the F.E.C. find that the campaign had broken the law by misreporting payments, and begin an #investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationships with vendors and subvendors.
But the commission #deadlocked last year in a vote on the matter, which meant no action could be taken.
The Campaign Legal Center sued the commission, but a federal judge — while expressing sympathy for the desire of transparency — dismissed the case late last year, saying that the commissioners had discretion.
“It is a lot easier to follow the money when you have a paper trail,” the judge opened his opinion.
The Campaign Legal Center has appealed.
https://campaignlegal.org

The Federal Election Commission has allowed committees to not itemize subvendor payments when those payments are an extension of the original vendor’s work.

But in recent years, this interpretation of the law has widened into a gaping #loophole that campaigns are exploiting.

Experts say it is illegal for campaigns to pay campaign staff members through #limited #liability companies, or for vendors to serve merely as #conduits to hide the ultimate recipient of campaign money.

In recent years, the #FEC., whose six commissioners are #deadlocked between the parties three to three, has essentially allowed campaigns to get away with minimal disclosures.

#Feds move to #dismiss Baseless Politically Motivated #charges against #NationalBlackJusticeCoalition #CEO #SharonLettmanHicks, and #AndrewGillum, the former #Tallahassee #Mayor and unsuccessful #Florida #gubernatorial #candidate.

Jury voted not guilty on Lying to the FBI then #Deadlocked 10 to 2 for #acquittal after 2 "biased" jurors prevented a unanimous decision on the rest of the charges.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #Florida #WashingtonDC

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/05/16/move-dismiss-charges-against-sharon-lettman-hicks/