Committees linked to Senators John B. Breaux of Louisiana, Harry Reid of Nevada and Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts made smaller contributions.
In a press release from early August, the Trump campaign said it had raised $82 million through his campaign and two joint fundraising committees linked to Republican Party committees.
By the end of 2015, the group had spent $3,700 on two other committees, linked to Jeb Bush's presidential bid and Republican Patrick Morrisey's West Virginia attorney general campaign.
This has opened the door for fundraising "supercommittees" -- joint fundraising committees linking large numbers of candidates and party committees -- to accept huge contributions to distribute to candidates in increments as high as $5,200.
In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in McConnell v. FEC, the direct challenge to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, that limitations on contributions to committees linked to lawmakers, whether they be campaign committees or PACs, are constitutional.
In the 2012 election, a number of joint fundraising committees linked to little-known state and local political parties, which then turned around and transferred the majority of that money to other political party committees.
An average of roughly $26,543 per month was disbursed from two federal election-focused political action committees linked to Pruitt, both of which announced plans last week to shut down.
The Republican Party in Ohio, on the other hand, raised only $9 million through September -- half the amount raised by their Democratic counterpart -- with just $5 million coming from the RNC and committees linked to the Romney campaign.
The proposals are understood to have been approved by a personnel committee linked to the school of history, whose members include Kenneth Fincham, the secretary of the influential Royal Historical Society.
Once allegations surfaced in 2008, Leifer was stood down by a committee linked to the school and plane tickets were purchased so she could quickly flee the country, the court heard.
