Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, an election denier with ties to former President Donald Trump, has paid a fine for violating federal election laws during his losing 2020 run in Kansas for the U.S. Senate.
Kobach's political committee paid fines of $5,060 and $405.75, according to documents released by the Federal Election Commission and exclusively reviewed by Raw Story. The fines stem from the committee knowingly renting an email list well below market value from We Build The Wall Inc., an organization that was later revealed to be a criminal enterprise.
Kobach served as general counsel and a board member of We Build The Wall. Three leaders of We Build The Wall, which raised private money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, are in prison for stealing money from donors.
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The FEC had not released details about Kobach’s fine payments until this week, after Raw Story inquired about them. Additionally, the FEC released records documenting a $24,534.21 federal fine paid by We Build The Wall.
An FEC spokesperson Judith Ingram called it an “administrative oversight.”
Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon received a presidential pardon for federal charges related to his work with We Build the Wall. Bannon, however, faces trial in May on state-level charges in New York.
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Kobach, a far-right former Kansas secretary of state and chair of the state Republican Party, is a hardliner on voting restrictions and immigration policies.
He was appointed by Trump as the vice chairman of a voting integrity commission that failed to find evidence of fraud during the 2016 election, despite Trump’s false claim that he had won the popular vote.
An image of the check Kobach for Senate sent the Federal Election Commission to pay one of two fines the agency issued the committee. Source: Federal Election Commission
