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Trump and his favorite fundraising platform both face donor problems
Every so often, Matthew Hurtt receives concerning emails. The subject lines are each slightly different: "Stop charging my account," "Urgent!" and "Donation not approved," but the people who send them all want the same thing: to halt the Republican political contribution platform WinRed from making any more automatic, recurring withdrawals from their accounts. Hurtt is chairman of the Virginia-based Arlington County Republican Committee and says he's reviewed a "few dozen" of these types of emails since the 2020 election. When WinRed processes a contribution to a Republican campaign, the charge shows up on the donor's credit card or bank statement as a payment to "WINRED www.GOP.com, Arlington VA," according to a statement provided by Hurtt and reviewed by CNBC. As a result, people often mistaken
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Former high-ranking FDIC attorney Mark Black pleads guilty in child sex exploitation case
A former high-ranking lawyer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to conspiring to sexually exploit multiple children and now faces a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 15 years. The lawyer, Mark Black, also previously served as president of the board of the Arlington Aquatic Club, a renowned Virginia swim club that includes U.S. Olympic swimmers among its alumni. Black resides in Arlington. Black, 50, most recently was special counsel in the general counsel's office of the FDIC, which insures the deposits of U.S. commercial and savings banks, according to his LinkedIn page. He has worked in the legal division since April 2013, his LinkedIn page says. The Department of Justice said Black, who is married and has teenage sons, was a member of "two o
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