Not a Single Human Being Donated to Embattled Rep. Chris Collins’ Campaign
The congressman raised just $5,000 during the first quarter of 2019 as he deals with insider trading charges.
Lachlan Markay
04.16.19 3:41 PM ET
Not a single human being donated to Rep. Chris Collins’ (R-N.Y.) reelection campaign in the first three months of 2019.
Collins, who is facing federal securities fraud charges, brought in just $5,000 in the first quarter of the year, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission this week. That’s compared to the roughly $280,000 he raised in the same period during the 2018 election cycle. And this time around, none of the money came from individual contributors.
The funds Collins received came from two political action committees representing moderate, business-friendly Republicans—the Tuesday Group PAC and the Republican Main Street Partnership (RMSP)—and from the campaign committee of a former colleague, Dan Donovan, a Staten Island Republican who lost his House reelection bid last year.
Collins office did not immediately return request for comment.
Collins was arrested in August and charged with ten criminal counts, including securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, making false statements to the FBI. Federal prosecutors say Collins used his position on the board of a pharmaceutical company to glean information about its upcoming failure in a key drug trial, and shared that information with his son, who subsequently sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock in the company.
Despite that, the congressman, who pleaded not guilty last year, went on to narrowly win reelection in 2018. He has is now vying for another term in office, even with a court hearing in his case scheduled for this September.
He’s running with virtually no financial support. The Tuesday Group and RMSP each donated $1,000 to Collins in February, and each gave another $1,000 in March. Collins was one of dozens of members of Congress to which the two groups donated in the first three months of the year. Donovan’s campaign committee also donated $1,000 to Collins in February along with a number of his House Republican colleagues.
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