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One of Eric Trump s top deputies played an important role overseeing the Trump campaign shell company that spent $617 million during the 2020 presidential race, sources told Insider.
In one instance, the Trump campaign paid an extra 2% fee on all ads aired from a firm tied to its chief strategist, Jason Miller, Trump advisors told Insider.
But much of the spending made through American Made Media Consultants remains a mystery, according to Trump advisors and an Insider analysis of Federal Election Commission records.
Ramon Cota of Chicago has repeatedly used social media to profess his support for President-elect Joe Biden, and disdain for President Donald Trump.
According to Delaware incorporation records, Cota signed paperwork in April 2018 that formed American Made Media Consultants the company that Insider reported spent almost half of the $1.26 billion in the campaign s coffers and secretly paid the president s family members.
Cota listed the Chicago office address of CSC, a Delaware-based company that provides clients with comprehensive business formation solutions and bills itself as the business behind business, in the American Made Media Consultants incorporation paperwork.
Reached through Twitter direct message on Friday, Cota, who does not appear to be involved in American Made Media Consultants operations beyond helping incorporate it, declined to comment.