"Virtually no public information": Trump campaign pays over $3 million to mystery company

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has given over $3 million to a mysterious company that appears to have been first incorporated in November of last year. The owners of the limited liability company, called Launchpad Strategies LLC, are not publicly disclosed on campaign finance records, fitting with a strategy Trump’s campaign has used in the past to hide exactly whom the campaign is paying, NBC News reported. While state business records show that Launchpad Strategies was incorporated in Delaware, campaign finance filings list an address in Raleigh, North Carolina. “It’s concerning to see a company formed just six months ago suddenly receive over $3.1 million from Donald Trump’s network of political committees, particularly since there is virtually no public information about this company,” Saurav Ghosh, the Campaign Legal Center's director of federal campaign finance reform, told NBC News. She said tha “Who works there, what services they offer or have provided, and whether Trump’s payments to ‘Launchpad Strategies LLC’ are for bona fide services or are, instead, actually payments to other vendors funneled through a mere corporate shell.” The payments Launchpad Strategies has received this year make it the the second largest vendor used by the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, the financial hub for Trump fundraising efforts.