{"id":194435,"date":"2021-11-11T10:42:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/they-raised-millions-for-trump-spent-barely-any-of-it-on-him-now-they-re-indicted"},"modified":"2021-11-11T10:42:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:42:31","slug":"they-raised-millions-for-trump-spent-barely-any-of-it-on-him-now-they-re-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/they-raised-millions-for-trump-spent-barely-any-of-it-on-him-now-they-re-indicted","title":{"rendered":"They raised millions for Trump, spent barely any of it on him. Now they&#8217;re indicted."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. | Scott Olson\/Getty Images For the last five years or more, Matt Tunstall has used the name and likeness of Donald Trump and other politicians to ostensibly raise money for a network of political action committees. But he&#8217;s been accused of pocketing most of the money himself and on Wednesday, his so-called scam PAC operation finally caught up to him. In an indictment unsealed on Wednesday , federal prosecutors charged Tunstall and Robert Reyes with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to lie to the Federal Election Committee. They allege that of the roughly $3.5 million raised by the PACs they ran during the 2016 election, &#8220;only approximately $19 were distributed to any candidate&#8217;s authorized campaign committee or to any political cause, while a total of more than $1.5 million was used to benefit&#8221; the PAC operators themselves. Prosecutors also charged Tunstall with multiple counts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feds just threw the book at one of the ultimate Trump-era scam PACers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,41,43],"class_list":["post-194435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-politics","tag-potus","tag-u-s-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}