In Case You Missed It: Guinta Doesn't Deny Parents are Funneling Money into his Campaign
If Frank Guinta illegally received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from his parents, he needs to immediately suspend his campaign
Concord - In an interview with NHPR, New Hampshire Republican Congressional candidate Frank Guinta refused to deny that his parents were funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into his Congressional campaign, which is a gross violation of federal election law. Guinta was approached by New Hampshire Public Radio reporter Jon Greenberg about the issue, and despite being asked multiple times if his parents had gifted him a large sum of money, he refused to answer.
In addition, Greenberg systematically went through all of Guinta's prior claims about where the money came from. He found that Guinta's explanation for the source of this account was "not at all likely." Even the absolute minimum value of all his declared assets seems to be an unreasonably large amount of money for Guinta to have made through real estate and insurance work.
The article also noted that some Republican activists think that Guinta received this money from his parents, who recently sold a home on the New Jersey shore for $820,000.00. But even if the money was a gift from a parent, if it was given with the intention of influencing a federal election then it is in violation of the law, according to Paul Ryan, Associate Counsel at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington.
"If Frank Guinta illegally received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from his parents, he needs to immediately suspend his campaign," said Mike Brunelle executive director of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. "It is clear he couldn't have earned this money himself as he has claimed. The question now is where did it come from?"
"Why does Guinta continue to refuse to address the source of over $350,000.00 that he has funneled into campaign for Congress?" asked Brunelle. "He was given three opportunities in this interview alone, and every time he refused to answer the question. What is he hiding?"
A transcript of the NHPR article is below. The audio version along with a video breaking down all of Guinta's previous explanations is available here.
