Court docs: Congressman Bob Brady(D) under FBI scrutiny in campaign finance probe
Rep. Robert Brady, D-Pennsylvania, is a target of FBI scrutiny in an investigation into payments his campaign allegedly made to his opponent in 2012 to encourage him to drop out of the race, according to an approved search warrant application filed in U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Two political consultants have already been charged in the campaign finance probe involving Brady's reelection, but the search warrant application dated Nov. 1 appears to be the first time Brady himself is mentioned as suspected of criminal wrongdoing in the probe. Federal prosecutors last month said Kenneth Smukler and Donald Jones planned a scheme for the Brady campaign to make an illicit $90,0000 campaign donation to Jimmie Moore, intended to pay down campaign debt. No charges have been filed against Brady.
Now, FBI special agent Jonathan Szeliga says in the search warrant application obtained by CBS News he has "probable cause to believe that Kenneth Smukler, Robert Brady, Donald "D.A." Jones, Jimmie Moore, and Carolyn Cavaness and others known and unknown have committed violations," including conspiracy, false statements, and causing false campaign contribution reports, and limits on campaign contributions and expenditures. The search warrant is directed at AOL, for all AOL accounts associated with Brady's email account, "bobcongress@aol.com." The search warrant application is signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Carol Sandra Moore Wells.
Brady is the ranking Democrat on the House Administration Committee, and has been since 2007.
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