A dark money group that helped finance the ground game to elect Democratic pastor Adam Hamilton to the U.S. Senate is facing a complaint alleging that it used its corporate identity as a shell to conceal its donors in violation of federal campaign finance law.
The nonprofit Campaign Legal Center has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against United Futures, organized both as a company and as a political action committee that appears to have no substantive public footprint.
“In the weeks leading up to the 2026 general election, unknown individuals appear to have orchestrated a massive scheme to funnel nearly $20 million into electoral advocacy efforts in multiple states, using United Futures, Inc., a Delaware corporate entity, as a “straw donor” to illegally conceal the sources of this money,” the complaint said.
“By illegally concealing who supplied this funding, the people behind this straw donor scheme denied voters the transparency they needed to make informed choices in the 2026 election,” the Campaign Legal Center said in a statement.
Formed on Aug. 12, United Futures Inc. contributed $19.7 million to multiple super PACs, including several that received most or all of their funding from the group, including Vote Kansas, which funded canvassing efforts in support of Hamilton, the complaint said.
United Futures gave almost $10 million to Vote Kansas to mobilize voter support for Hamilton as well as another political action committee that spent more than $14 million on independent expenditures in support of Hamilton.
The complaint said that at least four of the super PACs that received money from United Futures Inc., including Vote Kansas, knowingly participated in the “straw donor scheme.”
The complaint also named the Mississippi Forward PAC, the 49th State PAC in Alaska and the United Futures PAC.
Two of those PACs were in Mississippi and Alaska where there were two hotly contest races for the U.S. Senate in addition to the race in Kansas where Hamilton became the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Kansas since 1932.
The complaint says that United Futures – the company and the PAC – were created by the same person, a former high-level political operative. The complaint said they list the same virtual office space on their certificates of incorporation.
In addition, each of the four super PACs was incorporated in Delaware within the same 10-day period within 15 days of the formation of United Futures.
They also used the same mailing address, compliance firm, and registered agent and, “most tellingly,” received all or virtually all of their funding from United Futures Inc.
“Overall, these facts strongly indicate that these super PACs knowingly accepted contributions in the name of another, in violation of the
Federal Election Campaign Act.”
The complaint says United Futures Inc. appeared to lack any kind of substantive public footprint
It said searches on Google provide no results that originate from the Delaware entity ‘United Futures Inc.’ itself or that detail any activity by that entity other than articles about its political donations.
Further, United Futures Inc. does not appear to have a website or any social media accounts, the complaint said.
And there is no record of “United Futures Inc.” in searches with the Better Business Bureau, Bloomberg, the Securities and Exchange Commission or the New Castle County or Chicago Southland Chambers of Commerce — the local chambers of commerce for the addresses
associated with United Futures.
“There is no indication that UFI has any real-world or digital presence, or any activity during this period from which it could have obtained sufficient funds to contribute anywhere near this much money without someone…transferring funds to UFI for that purpose,” the complaint said.
“These staggering facts provide reason to believe that the unknown true contributor(s) formed and used UFI as a shell company to unlawfully conceal their identities from public disclosure, in blatant violation of federal campaign finance laws that ensure transparency for voters,” the complaint said.
Vote Kansas reported raising $3.2 million – all of its money – from United Futures Inc., which was incorporated in Delaware but had a Chicago address, an unassuming brownstone house on the north side of the city and west of Lake Michigan.
Vote Kansas appeared to be set up outside of Kansas to help establish a ground game to get Hamilton elected.
Volunteers at Hamilton events wore “Vote Kansas” stickers.”
The PAC paid $359,500 to OTG Strategies, a firm out of Lake St. Louis, Missouri, for canvassing services.
The PAC paid the Kansas Democratic Party about $20,000 for a software subscription and $6,000 to communications consultant Elizabeth Li of Philadelphia.
The PAC appears to have had about 15 staffers, including several who were also on the payroll for Hamilton’s Senate campaign.
At one point, the PAC advertised jobs for a special programs organizer, a faith organizer, a campus mobilizer, a regional organizing director and a field organizer.
Mike Phillips, a top aide to Hamilton, did not respond to a text message seeking comment late Monday afternoon.
In campaigning against corruption in Washington, Hamilton promised to work toward keeping billionaires and special interests from “flooding” elections with dark money.
“In the 2024 election alone, more than $1 billion in dark money expenditures were made. This money is drowning out the voices of normal voters and causing our elected officials to become even more beholden to special interests,” Hamilton’s website said.
Previously, a spokesperson for the Hamilton campaign had criticized a political action committee in the Democratic primary for setting it up so that it didn’t have to disclose its donors until after the election
The United Futures PAC was active directly in Hamilton’s campaign for the U.S. Senate.
The United Futures PAC gave $6.25 million to the People over Politics Action Fund, whose treasurer is Gregory T. Wolf, a prominent Democratic donor and general counsel for Maxus Properties in North Kansas City.
People Over Politics spent about $14.7 million in aiding Hamilton’s election.
Wolf was credited with heading up a Super PAC in 2014 called Kansans Support Problem Solvers that backed Orman’s unsuccessful campaign against Pat Roberts in the 2014 U.S. Senate race.
The complaint notes that while People Over Politics Action Fund reported receiving two contributions from the United Futures PAC — $2 million on Aug. 28 and $4.25 million on Sept. 22 – the PAC had not reported making those contributions.
The complaint alleges that the United Futures PAC violated by federal campaign finance law by not reporting the contributions to either the People Over Politics Action Fund or the BOLD PAC, which bills itself as the fastest-growing Democratic PAC dedicated to increasing the diversity of our leadership in the House and Senate.
The complaint says that United Futures Inc. – not the PAC – used two addresses in connection with its contributions.
It used 300 Delaware Ave., Suite 290, in Wilmington, Delaware, which is the virtual-office address listed on its certificate of incorporation.
It also used 1472 W. Rascher Ave. in Chicago, a brownstone home that appears to be a multi-family unit in the Andersonville neighborhood on the north side of the city
Four of the committees that received contributions from United Futures Inc. — the United Futures PAC, Mississippi Forward PAC, Vote Kansas, and 49th State PAC —appear to be related to the company, the complaint said.
They were all incorporated in Delaware within ten days of each other and share the same mailing address and campaign finance compliance firm.
They also were formed in the same time frame as United Futures Inc, which also was their primary contributor.
On. Aug 26, 2026— two weeks after United Futures Inc. was formed— Vote Kansas registered as a Delaware exempt corporation and named the Corporation Trust Company as its registered agent, according the complaint.
It registered as a super PAC with the Federal Election Commission a day later, on Aug. 27.
Christopher Koob of MBA Consultants is Vote Kansas’s treasurer, and Vote Kansas uses the same post office box as the United Futures PAC and Mississippi Forward, the complaint said.
Vote Kansas does not appear to maintain a website or have any other mechanism for soliciting contributions.
On Aug. 31, Vote Kansas received a $3.2 million contribution from United Futures.
The contribution came four days after Vote Kansas registered with the FEC and less than three weeks after United Futures Inc .was formed.
Vote Kansas has not reported receiving any other contributions.
Vote Kansas has not reported making any independent expenditures.
But it has reported spending about $1.3 million, most of which apparently for canvassing that “appears to have been coordinated with one or more federal candidates, based on the super PAC’s disclosure of these costs as operating, rather than independent, expenditures,” the complaint said.
The complaint spell out the timeline this way for Vote Kansas:
Aug. 12 – United Futures Inc. (referred to as UFI) registers in Delaware.
Aug. 26 –Vote Kansas registers in Delaware.
Aug. 27 – Vote Kansas registers with the Federal Election Commission.
Aug. 28 – United Futures Inc. contributes $3.2 million to Vote Kansas.
“The available information indicates that UFI was set up and used as a straw donor to funnel money to various super PACs actively influencing the 2026 election in its final weeks, as UFI plainly did not have the means to contribute nearly $20 million within two
months of its August 2026 formation without one or more other persons providing funds to it for that purpose.
“As such, these other persons were, in fact, the true source(s) of the contributions made in UFI’s name to multiple super PACs, including UF PAC, Mississippi Forward PAC, Vote Kansas, and 49th State PAC.
During the time between its formation and “purporting” to make nearly $20 million in contributions in its own name, United Futures Inc. did not appear to have engaged in any activity from which it could have garnered the funds with which to contribute large sums of money, the complaint said.
“Indeed, UFI appears to exist solely on paper and have been formed for a political purpose — it has no presence online, has listed a virtual office and a residential home as its addresses, does not appear to either generate or solicit money, and was formed by a well-known political operative active in federal elections.
“There are no public records or news articles that provide any information about its activities beyond the contributions at
issue,” the complaint said.
As such, UFI appeared to have lacked the financial resources to make the contribution, the complaint said.
There’s no telling when the Federal Election Commission would get to the complaint.
There are now only two seats on the FEC that are filled.
