Oracle’s Ellison donates $3 million to group backing Rubio

Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, one of the richest men in the world, donated $3 million to a super-PAC backing Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for president. 

Ellison donated the money to Conservative Solutions PAC, giving $1 million in May and another $2 million in June.

{mosads}The donations were made public in Federal Election Commission filings, disclosing donations for the first half of 2015. The outside group ended the first half of the year with a little more than $16 million. 

Ellison had already signaled he was in Rubio’s corner after hosting a fundraiser for the Florida senator in June.

Forbes estimated Ellison’s net worth earlier this year at $54.3 billion, making him the fifth-richest person on the planet. 

Ellison donated the same amount of money to an outside group supporting Mitt Romney in 2012. But he made that donation during the late stages of the general election, many months after Romney had already won the GOP nomination. 

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, he donated a little less than $100,000 in the 2014 election cycle.