Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has given more than $30,000 to an ad agency named “Draper Sterling,” similar to the one featured in the fictional AMC television show “Mad Men.”
According to the campaign’s latest Federal Election Commission filing, three separate payments of $10,000 were paid to a New Hampshire-based ad firm reminscent of the agency run by characters Don Draper and Roger Sterling in the hit TV series. Each of the payments were made on April 26.
According to ThinkProgress’ Judd Legum, who first flagged the payments, Draper Sterling was registered as a limited liability company with the New Hampshire secretary of state by a man named Jon Adkins in mid-March. Adkins’ home address accompanies the payment receipts on the Trump campaign’s May FEC filing.
This is the address listed for “Draper Sterling,” the entity Trump paid $35,000 in May for advertising pic.twitter.com/TnDDf0OPyY
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 21, 2016
In early May, an FEC complaint involving the political action committee Patriots For America described Draper Sterling as “mysterious” and “deserving” of an investigation. The complaint, filed by University of Missouri economics professor Aaron Hedlund, claimed Patriots For America owed the firm more than $50,000 in debt for “business consulting,” or 65 percent of the PAC’s total disbursements.
The agency in “Mad Men” has alternately been called Sterling Cooper and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
A spokeswoman for theTrump campaign did not return the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
