A PAC operator whose company raised more than $20 million in recent years but spent almost no money on political activity was sentenced to three years in prison
in federal court in Alexandria, Va., on Friday.last year to wire fraud in one of the first cases of its kind, a sign federal authorities are beginning to crack down on "scam PACs" that raise money from donors in the name of political causes but keep most of those funds for profit.Story Continued Below
Instead, Rogers "misappropriated nearly all of the donations for his own personal benefit and for the benefit of his PACs and preferred vendors," wrote Terwilliger. Rogers was also involved in running Conservative Majority Fund, a PAC that raised almost $10 million between 2012 and 2019 but, according to anby POLITICO and ProPublica, spent almost no money on candidates or political activity.
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