The Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday that Dan Osborn called Live Nation a “predatory monopoly” that “scams fans,” all while his campaign was cashing checks from Live Nation New England Chairman Donald Law, the executive personally credited with building Ticketmaster’s monopoly.
The Free Beacon asked Osborn’s campaign directly: would they return the money?
The Osborn campaign refused to answer.
Instead, he went out and took an additional $3500 donation from Donald Law, the architect of what Osborn calls a “predatory monopoly” that “scams fans” and “screws artists.”
Dan Osborn didn’t just refuse to return the money. He asked for more.
Those actions tell Nebraska voters everything they need to know. Dan Osborn doesn’t have convictions, he has a family to funnel money to.
Osborn funneled nearly $500,000 in campaign funds to his wife, daughter, two sisters-in-law, and brother-in-law, hiding the payments behind a web of out-of-state LLCs and dark money PACs specifically chosen for their limited transparency requirements. He never disclosed their ownership voluntarily. Every single revelation came through FEC action and reporters he couldn’t ignore.
That kind of sketchy operation is expensive. It requires a steady stream of checks, which means there is apparently no cause Dan Osborn won’t abandon and no donor he won’t take money from.
His anti-dark money media tour hit a roadblock when Nebraska voters filed an FEC complaint alleging he illegally funneled over $100,000 in dark money directly into his campaign’s payroll.
He raged against Epstein’s network on social media, while planning a fundraiser with a donor named in the Epstein files for allegedly transporting teenage girls to Epstein’s properties. He never returned any of the money raised from that fundraiser.
The pattern is clear: Osborn picks a villain, grandstands on social media, then privately cashes that villain’s check. Every time. Because when you’re running a half-million dollar grift out of a Senate campaign, morals are the first thing to go.
Nebraska voters deserve a senator whose word means something. Dan Osborn has made clear his mean nothing.
