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Donald Trump Should Be Very Worried About Yesterday's FBI Raid In Annapolis
At least a dozen vehicles carrying a platoon of FBI agents and federal marshals descended on the Annapolis, Maryland offices of the conservative Strategic Campaign Group yesterday. Agents covered the glass doors in plastic trash bags, then carted away documents and computers.
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The state's Republican Party said the raid concerns fundraising questions in a previous political race," Miller related. Indeed, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli sued the firm three years ago alleging that its Conservative Strikeforce PAC used his name for fundraising without permission
By the end of the day, every major news outlet was reporting on this raid the same way. But this is a hard explanation to swallow.
Our suspicion is that this is just a carry-over from that," Rogers told the Washington Post, which reported his explanation without contradiction. According to Rogers, agents "collected documents related to the firm's direct mail and fundraising practices."
First of all, so-called "scam PACs" are normally the domain of the Federal Elections Commission, which conservative activists have rendered toothless. Yes, the FBI does investigate fraud, yet the amounts at issue in the Cuccinelli scandal are in the mid five figures - hardly the kind of operation that the Washington, DC FBI office normally goes out of its way to take down. And the FBI has never said anything about a new focus on scam PACs.
Furthermore, Cuccinelli told the Associated Press "that he'd not spoken to any federal law enforcement officials about Strategic Campaign Group but is ‘curious' to see where the case goes" - which is odd, since the FBI normally talks to alleged victims as part of any investigation.
No wonder an alternate theory of the case was blasting all over social media yesterday. Was the raid perhaps connected to the FBI investigation of Donald Trump?
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Strategic Campaign Group has more than one connection to Trump's world.
Although the information has been scrubbed from the organization's website today, Senior adviser Dennis Whitfield used to be a director at BKSH and Associates, a company founded by Trump conspiracy-wrangler Roger Stone and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort that more or less invented the foreign lobbying trade. Through a merger, BKSH later became Prime Policy Group, which worked for the government of Russian puppet Victor Yanukovitch in Ukraine. Prime Policy Group acknowledged its relationship to Stone and Manafort as late as last July.
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The state's Republican Party said the raid concerns fundraising questions in a previous political race," Miller related. Indeed, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli sued the firm three years ago alleging that its Conservative Strikeforce PAC used his name for fundraising without permission
By the end of the day, every major news outlet was reporting on this raid the same way. But this is a hard explanation to swallow.
Our suspicion is that this is just a carry-over from that," Rogers told the Washington Post, which reported his explanation without contradiction. According to Rogers, agents "collected documents related to the firm's direct mail and fundraising practices."
First of all, so-called "scam PACs" are normally the domain of the Federal Elections Commission, which conservative activists have rendered toothless. Yes, the FBI does investigate fraud, yet the amounts at issue in the Cuccinelli scandal are in the mid five figures - hardly the kind of operation that the Washington, DC FBI office normally goes out of its way to take down. And the FBI has never said anything about a new focus on scam PACs.
Furthermore, Cuccinelli told the Associated Press "that he'd not spoken to any federal law enforcement officials about Strategic Campaign Group but is ‘curious' to see where the case goes" - which is odd, since the FBI normally talks to alleged victims as part of any investigation.
No wonder an alternate theory of the case was blasting all over social media yesterday. Was the raid perhaps connected to the FBI investigation of Donald Trump?
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Strategic Campaign Group has more than one connection to Trump's world.
Although the information has been scrubbed from the organization's website today, Senior adviser Dennis Whitfield used to be a director at BKSH and Associates, a company founded by Trump conspiracy-wrangler Roger Stone and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort that more or less invented the foreign lobbying trade. Through a merger, BKSH later became Prime Policy Group, which worked for the government of Russian puppet Victor Yanukovitch in Ukraine. Prime Policy Group acknowledged its relationship to Stone and Manafort as late as last July.
More at link: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/05/donald-trump-should-be-very-worried-about
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