<p>"The supplement, filed Thursday morning with the Federal Election Commission, is in part based on Insider's reporting in December about American Made Media Consultants, a secretive shell company that operated inside Trump's 2020 campaign committee," said the report. "American Made Media Consultants, the shell company, along with a political firm owned by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, 'served as conduits that hid the ultimate recipients of nearly half of the campaign's overall spending,' the updated complaint states. 'These schemes disguised which firms or individuals were working for Trump's committees, how much and when they were being paid, and the purposes of those payments,' it continued."</p><p>The complaint is a response to former <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-trump-campaign-shell-company-family-ammc-lara-2020-12" target="_blank">reporting</a> that suggested hundreds of millions of dollars flowed through this shell company, which was approved by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.</p><p>Trump's associates were perpetually dogged by ethics complaints both around the campaign and the administration, from allegations the former president <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/10/24/fox-news-judge-andrew-napolitano-calls-out-trumps-dangerous-contempt-for-the-emoluments-clause_partner/" target="_blank">violated the emoluments clause</a> of the Constitution by accepting foreign gifts through payments to his businesses, to repeated <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/more-than-one-dozen-trump-officials-violated-hatch-act-in-month-before-the-election/" target="_blank">violations of the Hatch Act</a> by government employees using their platforms to engage in campaign activity.</p>
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