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As these contributions were already made public, nothing has been revealed.

And then connecting it with this email reveals the damning evidence: https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/49813

Publicly they were individual donations. This shows the intent of the group to donate a sum of $50k along with detailing how they were going break their donation up to skirt the law.

They deliberately structured their donations to sidestep the $5k limitation to campaigns they're subject to.

That's fine. What about the rest of the documents?

This isn't even close to being damning evidence. There's no "structuring" here to "sidestep" anything. There's no breaking up donations. This is someone asking individuals to contribute to a campaign. Contributions which, by the way, are a matter of public record for all to see, no hacking needed.

Asking for contributions to make a corporate goal as a kickback for services received.

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