Special prosecutor finds probable cause Sorenson violated Iowa Senate rules (Bachmann)
Source: Quad City Times
DES MOINES — A special prosecutor Wednesday advised the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee that he found probable cause that Sen. Kent Sorenson violated rules barring senators from being paid by a political campaign.
The prosecutor also found cause that Sorenson committed the offense of felonious misconduct in office by knowingly making false statements to the committee in responding to the complaint
“In his two written responses to the complaint that he submitted to the committee, Senator Sorenson categorically denied being compensated for his role in the Bachmann campaign,” Weinhardt stated in his report. “We find probable cause to believe that those statements were false, and that Senator Sorenson knew they were false when he made them.”
Because Sorenson was a public employee at the time and the statements are contained in public records, “we find there is probable cause to believe that Senator Sorenson’s statements constitute the crime of felonious misconduct in office in violation of Iowa Code,” Weinhardt wrote.
The special prosecutor said Sorenson made a statement “to various people acknowledging that he was receiving compensation in exchange for his support for and work for” Bachmann, and the state senator made statements “showing that he believed that Senate Ethics Rules in fact prohibited him from receiving such compensation.”
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The Bachmanns are going to jail!
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