Entity filePACs
- Name
- Friends of Mike Lee
- Kind
- PACs
- Links
- 29 (3 findings, 26 relationships)
- Also appears as
- Friends of Mike Lee Inc (FEC C00473827); Friends of Mike Lee; Friends of Mike Lee Inc
Friends of Mike Lee
FEC committee C00473827. Auto-created from pv-data-miner finding finding-2026-05-29-the-caging-loop.json.
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- PAC
- Recorded relationship
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| From | Link | To | Amount | Dates | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Corrigan | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Peter H Coors | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Larry A Mizel | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Stephen Schwarzman | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Tripp Baird | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| David Safavian | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Ginni Thomas | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Sean Fieler | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Charlie Spies | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Kimberly Bellissimo | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Palmer Luckey | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Doug Deason | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Tom Klingenstein | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Thomas Datwyler | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | finding 79, finding 85 | ||
| Mark A. Kolokotrones | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Tyler Bowyer | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Jake Hoffman | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Mark Paoletta | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Cleta Mitchell | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | finding 79 | ||
| Doyce Boesch | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee | |||
| Leonard Leo | gave to | Friends of Mike Lee |
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Findings
- A single back-office firm, 9Seven Consulting, processed FEC compliance for 340 federal committees (2019-2025) totaling $4.13M, with 99.5% of party-identified clients Republican and a 233-committee peak in the 2022 cycle.
- Two captive 'compliance consulting' vendors (9Seven Consulting and AxCapital, LLC) collect 77% to 81% of all their FEC revenue from Thomas Datwyler treasured committees, with 9Seven Consulting filing from the exact same PO Box (54016-0183, Hudson WI) as Datwyler himself; 370 of Datwyler's 676 committees (54.7%) route compliance payments to this captive shop, totaling $5.87M across 2019 to March 2026.alreporter.com
- Only three FEC committees in the entire 2019 to March-2026 filing universe have ever booked a payment to a Compass entity with the explicit purpose 'CAGING' or 'CAGING SERVICES' on Schedule B: Speaker Mike Johnson's leadership PAC ($240,756.89, 23 payments, 2024-02-14 to 2025-12-19, treasurer Lisa Lisker), the Senate Conservatives Fund ($22,342.23, 11 payments, treasurer Paul Kilgore), and Tim Sheehy for Montana ($8,236.75, 2 payments, treasurer Katie Wenetta); Johnson's caging spend escalated 47% year-over-year ($97,419.89 in 2024 to $143,337.00 in 2025) with the single largest disbursement, $23,162.25, posted 2025-11-04, one day before the off-year election.fec.gov
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