According to The Washington Free Beacon:
“NEARLY 65% CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES HAVE GONE TO HIS SISTER’S LAW FIRM, WHICH DOES NOT HAVE A WEBSITE AND LISTS A RESIDENTIAL HOME AS ITS ADDRESS.
Newly released Federal Election Commission filings show that Clay Jr. For Congress, the congressman’s campaign committee, has generously compensated the Law Office of Michelle C. Clay LLC, a Silver Spring, Md.-based firm that is owned and operated by his sister, Michelle Clay.
Democratic Rep. William Lacy Clay (Mo.) has paid his sister’s law firm more than $100,000 from his campaign funds so far this year, Federal Election Commission filings show. The firm, which does not appear to have a website and lists a residential home as its address, was paid $26,000 during the third quarter, which runs from the beginning of July to the end of September. The campaign spent $50,000 during the third quarter, meaning that the $26,000 in payments that Clay paid his sister’s firm accounts for more than half of the committee’s expenditures during this time. Close to 65 percent of all expenditures from Rep. Clay’s campaign committee this year have gone to his sister’s firm.
The committee reports spending $164,908 this year with Michelle Clay’s firm receiving a majority of all the money that has left her brother’s campaign.
Rep. Clay has consistently paid thousands of dollars to a second company for fundraising services despite paying his sister’s firm for the same thing. Fraioli & Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based political campaign consulting firm dedicated to electing Democrats, received three payments for fundraising during the third quarter, records show. Fraioli & Associates received consistent payments for fundraising help throughout the year.”
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