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Exhibit 904

MUR 6589, American Action Network (complainant CREW)

Exhibit 904 · Enforcement record

MUR 6589, American Action Network (complainant CREW)

The Commission failed by a vote of 3-3 to: a. Find reason to believe that American Action Network violated 2 U.S.C. §§ 432, 433, and 434.

FEC failed 3-3 on reason to believe that AAN was a political committee; file closed 6-0.

Source
Federal Election Commission
Date
statement of reasons 19 October 2016
Quoted from
MUR #6589 page, Summary > Disposition
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/matter-under-review/6589/
Accessed
2026-11-10
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding POL-5.11
Primary record The FEC ended enforcement matters against groups on both sides without finding violations. It split 3 to 3 in MUR 6396 and MUR 6696 (Crossroads GPS) and MUR 6589 (American Action Network); in MUR 7904 (Wyss, Berger Action Fund, Wyss Foundation, New Venture Fund and Sixteen Thirty Fund) it voted 6 to 0 to dismiss the political-committee allegations and split 3 to 3 and 2 to 4 on the foreign-national and name-of-another allegations.