Sen. Susan Collins obtained tons of of 1000’s of {dollars} in unlawful marketing campaign contributions in 2020, and the FBI is investigating.
Axios reported:
A just lately unsealed search warrant utility exhibits the FBI believes a Hawaii protection contractor illegally funneled $150,000 to a pro-Collins tremendous PAC and reimbursed donations to Collins’ marketing campaign. There’s no indication that Collins or her staff had been conscious of any of it.
Collins helped the contractor at challenge, then known as Navatek and since renamed the Martin Protection Group, safe an $8 million Navy contract earlier than many of the donations occurred.
The donor that Collins helped out was indicted final 12 months for bilking the federal authorities out of thousands and thousands of {dollars} of coronavirus aid.
Collins surprisingly simply received what appeared like a good reelection race in 2020, and he or she could have performed it with the assistance of a well-known marketing campaign scheme that’s in style with Republicans. A faux group was created to donate to Sen. Collins’s PAC, and the donor additionally illegally reimbursed household and colleagues for donations to Collins.
It doesn’t matter if Susan Collins participated within the scheme. The truth that such criminality is going on is why Congress must go the For The Folks Act and reform the marketing campaign finance system.
Susan Collins has constructed a false picture as a pure average, however this scandal exhibits that she is one other Republican on the take.
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Mr. Easley is the founder/managing editor, who’s White Home Press Pool, and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work targeted on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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