Republican candidate Donald Trump's presidential campaign has received a $50m (£39.5m) boost from conservative billionaire Timothy Mellon, a federal filing on Thursday shows.
The Super-Pac fund called “MAGA Inc” revealed to the Federal Election Commission that it received more than $68 million from donors last month, reported bbc.
Mellon, heir to the Pittsburgh-based Mellon banking family, donated $50 million, according to Reuters. Additionally, another $10 million came from billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein.
The day after Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records in his hush money trial in New York, Mellon sent the donation, US media reported.
Donating to the pro-Kennedy American Values Super-Pac at least $20 million, Mellon has also been the largest donor to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
To support an electoral candidate, Super-Pacs are independent “political action committees” that can raise unlimited amounts of money.
Mellon has helped pro-Trump allies outspend US President Joe Biden's allies on campaigns in recent weeks.
Mellon is an amateur pilot who has invested in and managed transportation-related companies. He lives in Wyoming and is rarely photographed.
The Mellon family is worth approximately $14.1 billion, according to estimates by Forbes.
