FEC asked to investigate flower shop’s $500,000 contribution to super PAC backing Suarez’s 2024 bid

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Associated Press

MIAMI (AP) — A government watchdog group is asking federal regulators to investigate a $500,000 contribution to a super PAC backing Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s presidential bid by a shop selling artificial flowers. The nonpartisan group Campaign Legal Center says it filed the complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday. The complaint says the business did not have the financial means to make such a contribution and was instead used to hide the identities of the contributors. The super PAC says the complaint is an attack “intended to undercut the only Hispanic Republican candidate.”