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Trump Filing Shows Payout to Fictional Ad Agency With 'Mad Men'-Inspired Name
June 21, 2016
The company's name? Draper Sterling.
LONDONDERRY, New Hampshire (AP) — A $35,000 payment for "web advertising" in Donald Trump's most recent campaign finance filings is turning heads because of the firm's name: Draper Sterling.
Trump report includes three 10K payments to "Draper Sterling" for advertising
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 21, 2016
Who is going break it to him that it's a fictional ad agency?
"Draper" and "Sterling" are the last names of two characters in the television show "Mad Men," a fictional drama about a 1950s advertising firm called Sterling Cooper. Records show Trump's campaign paid Draper Sterling $35,000 in late April, but few details are available about the company and what services it provided for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's campaign.

Draper Sterling is registered at an address in the town of Londonderry, New Hampshire, according to filings with the New Hampshire Secretary of State's office. Londonerry is 15-minute drive and a town over from Windham, New Hampshire, the hometown of former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
Trump resoundingly won New Hampshire's February presidential primary, his first victory on his way to capturing enough delegates to win the GOP nomination.
Draper Sterling was created in late March, and the agent is listed as Jon Adkins. Records show Adkins received a $3,000 payment for "field consulting" from Trump's campaign in mid-May, as did a man named Paul Holzer, who uses the same Londonderry address.
The company has no website or list of available clients and does not appear to have an office outside of the residential home listed on the filings. A woman who answered the door at the home Tuesday identified herself as Adkins' mother-in-law but said he was in Boston for the day. Calls and an email to Adkins were not returned.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks did not immediately respond to a request for comment about what Draper Sterling did for the campaign.
Both Holzer and Adkins are also affiliated with a start-up non-profit called Xeno Therapeutics, a company working on genetically modified skin treatments for burn victims. The company website was put behind a password wall earlier Tuesday, and Adkins and Holzer both removed their LinkedIn pages.
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