RNC Obscures What It Pays Top Officials

ProPublica: “Last year, Richard Walters earned a salary of $207,558, but the party paid him an additional $135,000 through a shell company he established in December 2018 called Red Wave Strategies. Federal Election Commission reports described the RNC’s payments to Red Wave as ‘political strategy services,’ as if the money had flowed to an independent contractor and not Walters himself. Red Wave does not have other employees and has no clients other than the RNC.”

“Amid the flows of cash to the GOP, a select group of political operatives has leveraged Trump campaign ties for lucrative consulting work… A half-dozen former RNC employees and Republican operatives said that the various deals, typically veiled behind opaque limited liability corporations, create an unseemly overall impression that is bad for morale and could eventually harm the party’s credibility with donors.”