GMA In The Hot Seat For Alleged Money Laundering

GMA In The Hot Seat For Alleged Money Laundering http://bit.ly/1KSu770

Allegations against Grocery Manufacturers Assoc. constitute largest political funding concealment case in Washington state’s history.

Washington state’s attorney general has asked a court to penalize the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) for its “intentional subterfuge” in an alleged effort to elude state campaign-finance laws.

At issue is Washington, D.C.-based GMA’s financing of a 2013 campaign against Initiative 522, a Washington state ballot measure which sought to require labeling of genetically engineered food products. The trade group, which represents some of the world’s largest packaged food manufacturers, was the biggest, single donor to the “No on 522” political committee.

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