Clerical error inadvertently exposes shady donations to Jim Jordan and MAGA groups: report

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Clerical error inadvertently exposes shady donations to Jim Jordan and MAGA groups: report

Travis Gettys
June 8, 2026 10:41AM ET

A clerical error inadvertently revealed a campaign contribution to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) that's now the subject of complaint with the Federal Election Commission.

The nonprofit Project On Government Oversight flagged a $250,000 contribution by the private prison contractor GEO Group to a super PAC aligned with Jordan less than two weeks after the lawmaker helped pass President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which provided funding to double the detention space for immigrant detainees.

"Now, what's interesting about this story is that GEO Group said in response that this is a donation that never should have been disclosed because they actually made it to a 501(c)(4) organization, which is a so-called 'dark money' group that does not legally have to disclose these kinds of donations," MS NOW correspondent David Noriega told "Morning Joe."

"So it was basically a mistake, it was an accident that we knew about this donation in the first place," Noriega continued. "It, of course, raises the question of how many more dark money donations is the GEO Group making to Republicans and to President Trump? Because we know that they're already making a lot of public donations, that information is available. Look right there on your screen. That's $1.625 million in donations to super PACs affiliated with congressional Republicans. I went back and looked at the at the FEC records to pull these numbers, that's just since 2022 now, on donations to President Trump. There have been about $3.25 million in donations since 2024 to MAGA Inc. and other super PACs affiliated with President Trump, so the question that this dark money donation to the group associated with Jim Jordan raises is, are these publicly known donations just the tip of the iceberg?"

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