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Exclusive: Congressional Ethics Probe Adds to Michele Bachmanns Political WoesEighteen months ago, the Minnesota House member was considered an unlikely but undeniable Republican rising star, winning the Iowa straw poll that unofficially begins the primary season. Today, she is embroiled in a litany of legal proceedings related to her rolling disaster of a presidential campaignincluding a Office of Congressional Ethics investigation into campaign improprieties that has not previously been reported.
The Daily Beast has learned that federal investigators are now interviewing former Bachmann campaign staffers nationwide about alleged intentional campaign-finance violations. The investigators are working on behalf of the Office of Congressional Ethics, which probes reported improprieties by House members and their staffs and then can refer cases to the House Ethics Committee.
I have been interviewed by investigators, says Peter Waldron, a former Bachmann staffer whos embroiled in his own fight with his former boss, involving his allegations of pay-to-play politics and improper payments by the campaignmaking him one of several members of Bachmanns inner circle whove fallen out with the woman they once hoped would become commander in chief. While he was careful to avoid specifics in regard to the investigating body, Waldron said that investigators came [and] interviewed me and are interviewing other staff members across the country.
Two other former staffers confirmed the existence of the investigation this weekend, and on Monday Bachmanns campaign counsel, William McGinley, of the high-powered firm Patton Boggs, confirmed that the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) was looking into the congresswomans presidential campaign last year.
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A cyclone of crap ... (Original Post)
MindMover
Mar 2013
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COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)1. Not to worry. Bachmann will assert the
'Jeebus told me to do it' defense.
kairos12
(12,872 posts)2. Also, the Obama man made me do it defense