Virginia State Officials Confirm: Gingrich Campaign Being Investigated for ‘Illegal Acts’

[stlsaxman]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/09/virginia-state-officials-confirm-gingrich-campaign-being-investigated-for-illegal-acts/

You may recall, that the Gingrich campaign failed to turn in enough signatures on petitions this past December, to qualify the candidate to appear on that state’s upcoming Republican primary ballot. In fact, by Gingrich’s own admission, his campaign turned in 11,100 signatures when only 10,000 were needed. The problem? 1500 of those signatures were quickly identified as fraudulent.

Of course Newt wants us to believe that this was “just a mistake” made by person his campaign had hired to collect signatures. Who was this one person who made the mistake? The campaign won’t say. Why not? Wouldn’t it be easier to scape-goat a lazy, minimum wage signature collector that let the entire campaign get black eye?

The Virginia State Attorney General’s office doesn’t view voter fraud on this scale as being “just a mistake.” In fact, an official in the Virginia State Board of Elections (SBE) described it as, “definitely an illegal act.”

Brian J. Gottestein, Director of Communication for the Office of the Attorney General confirmed to The BRAD BLOG that there is “an investigation underway.” Other than stating that fact, Gottestein refused to comment further and declined to indicate how much cooperation the AG’s office is getting from Gingrich’s Virginia campaign organization.

wow!

[Lil Missy]

1. ......

[bluestateguy]

2. I could see the Romney campaign orchestrating this

It would not be hard for them to use their allies in Virginia state government to trump up an investigation of his main southern rival.

[On the Road]

3. Is 14% a Suspiciously High Number?

I really don't know. You have to take into account that I assume Gingrich would be more likely to use paid employees due to a lack of volunteers.