From a story by Thomas Catenacci in the Washington Free Beacon:
A Chinese auto executive and an active member of the Chinese Communist Party donated over $65,000 to New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s campaign, according to state campaign finance disclosures. Those donations may very well be illegal: The law bans foreign nationals from donating to U.S. political campaigns.
The executive, Pin Ni, leads the U.S. subsidiary of the Hangzhou, China-based automotive and industrial powerhouse Wanxiang Group. He wrote two checks in the amount of $30,000 in February and July, respectively, to the super PAC supporting Sherrill’s campaign. In June, Ni made a maximum contribution of $5,800 directly to Sherrill’s campaign.
Also from the story:
“There must be an investigation to determine whether or not Mikie Sherrill violated election laws by accepting campaign contributions from not only a foreign national, but worse, a member of the Chinese Communist Party,” Paul Kamenar, counsel for the right-leaning National Legal and Policy Center, said in an interview. “That, in our view, is totally outrageous.”
“If this is a legally permitted contribution, the fact that Mikie Sherrill is willing to take campaign cash from a Communist Chinese Party member raises very serious concerns of what her values are,” he continued.
Ni is also a major donor to the campaign of Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, whose race, like Sherill’s, is very close. The Virginia race has suddenly tightened in the wake of Spanberger’s refusal to demand that Attorney General candidate, Jay Jones, get off her ticket. Jones wished the murder of a political rival, and his children.
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