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U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Re: U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Post by Acrobatic_Road »

Uh, fake news?

From reading the article, the donor sent $500k to 22 different parties. Some of these parties include Luke Smith, a popular Linux youtube personality, the guy who runs cock.li, ruqqus (a reddit alternative), various right wing websites including amren.com and unz.com (which didn't promote the protest). 45% of the donation went to Nick Fuentes, who was at the capitol, but denies entering the building.

And according to the article:

>While we don’t know if these donations directly funded last week’s violent gathering at the Capitol or any associated activity, the timing certainly warrants suspicion

I think we need a new headline.

Re: U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Post by vorpalhex »

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #5

Isn't it illegal for foreigners to donate in a way that influences US politics? If it isn't can't the CCP or Putin simply donate to a side that supports their cause?

So it's not a campaign contribution since the insurrectionists weren't a political campaign. If they were involved in supporting a candidate by taking out ads, there are requirements about declaring the foreign support - but they didn't seem to do that.

There is a separate set of laws for conspiracy to commit sedition. If the donor was donating to forment unrest (knowingly) then there are charges that can be pursued, but would likely require extradition.

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Post by anigbrowl »

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #5

Isn't it illegal for foreigners to donate in a way that influences US politics? If it isn't can't the CCP or Putin simply donate to a side that supports their cause?

It's illegal to donate to election/political campaigns, technically this is not illegal as the insurrectionists are not a discrete political entity that could be proscribed or tagged as political. This assumes, of course, that there was no foreknowledge on the part of the donor about anything untoward.

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Post by mytailorisrich »

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #5

Isn't it illegal for foreigners to donate in a way that influences US politics? If it isn't can't the CCP or Putin simply donate to a side that supports their cause?

I believe that the ban on donations from foreigners relates to electoral campaigns and political parties.

Re: U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Post by anigbrowl »

kjakm wrote: post #6
AnotherGoodName wrote: post #5

Isn't it illegal for foreigners to donate in a way that influences US politics? If it isn't can't the CCP or Putin simply donate to a side that supports their cause?

Illegal or not who’s going to stop them when US law doesn’t apply abroad? In general the US interferes far more in foreign politics at least on a high level imo. I tend to find when there’s a US election foreign politicians refuse to comment and when it’s the other way around US politicians are full of opinions.

You're overlooking the existence of extradition treaties and the possibility of sanctions applied on persons in jurisdictions that don't have extradition treaties.

Re: U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Post by vorpalhex »

Arkhaine_kupo wrote: post #10

Cool analysis. I wonder if the breach is considered domestic terrorism, could this funds be seized as part of an effort to fund such terrorists, or because its a private donation the gov can't touch it.

It's insurrection. Terrorism would be if it was against civilians with the intent to cause terror and mayhem.
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