NEW: Andrew Yang's speaking fees, including from JPMorgan, raise campaign finance questions, experts say.
Months after announcing his bid for the presidency as a Democrat, entrepreneur and author Andrew Yang was paid for a number of speaking engagements, bringing in $94,000 between April 2018 and February 2019, his financial disclosure report shows.
"You know, the truth is, I don't remember what the logos were in terms of the deck. I mean, I have a presentation I've been giving in various settings," Yang said."It would not surprise me if the campaign logo was somewhere there because, you know, that's just the imagery that was on the slide deck. So, yeah, it wouldn't surprise me at all."
"It's not one of those cases of clear illegality," Hasen told ABC News."It does create an appearance question as to why he would have thought to have included his campaign logo on a private activity." Andrew Gray, a spokesman for the bank, said JPMorgan makes clear with officials and political figures who give speeches that"we do not facilitate electioneering or political fundraising at corporate functions."
"I think the question here about whether any laws are being violated," Fischer said,"is whether any of the interest groups that are hiring Yang are doing so because he's a presidential candidate or because he's a known entity on the speaker circuit who just happens to be running for president."
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