Investigation

The Super-Treasurer and the FEC Chairman

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Litigation AssociateDeputy Chief CounselGeneral CounselCommissioner 2020 to 2025, Chairman 2024Counsel to VP, Jan 2025+issued under Cooksey-led 3-2 voteenabled paid 3rd-party canvassing without coordination reportingFEC Compliance Counselorshared address, $900K vendor in 2023treasurer on 714 committeesregulates$4.14M (343 committees)Federal Election CommissionRegulator of all 714 Datwyler committeesGibson Dunn & CrutcherLitigation Associate, pre-2019Sen. Ted CruzCooksey was Deputy Chief CounselSen. Josh HawleyCooksey was General Counsel, 2019 to 2020Sean CookseyFEC Chairman 2024. Now Counsel to VP JD Vance.VP JD Vance (Office of)Cooksey joined Jan 2025, 7 days before inauguration2024 FEC canvassing ruleAdvisory opinion: 3-2, Republican majorityAmerica PAC (Musk)$200M+ in 2024, exploited the rule for paid canvassingThomas DatwylerFEC Compliance Counselor, Compass Professional Inc.Compass Professional Inc.Delaware, 2021. At CPI's 300 Independence Ave address.Conservative Partnership Institute501(c)(3). $36M annual budget.714 FEC committees$1.16B total expenditures, 245 candidates, GOP only9Seven Consulting$4.14M from 343 Datwyler-network committees
Curated subgraph drawn from FEC committee master data (politics_vault_standardized.fec_committee_master_2019_2026), FEC expenditure data (fec_expenditures_2019_March2026_p), Cooksey's official biography on rules.senate.gov, and reporting in NYT, POLITICO, and Wikipedia. Each edge is traceable to a primary source.