FBI probing possible illegal donations to Susan Collins PAC and congressional campaign,

[RandySF]

The FBI has launched a probe into possible illegal campaign contributions funded by a defense company that supported Sen. Susan Collins’s 2020 congressional campaign, according to a recently unsealed search warrant application.

Nothing in the warrant, reported first by Axios, indicates that Collins or her staff were aware of the allegedly illegal donations.

The FBI’s search warrant application, which requested access to a hard drive, outlined reasons investigators believe the former CEO of a Hawaii defense contractor — Navatek, now known as Martin Defense Group — funneled donations funded by the company to a PAC supporting Collins through a shell company and donations to the Collins for Senator campaign through his family members.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/fbi-investigation-susan-collins-donations/2021/05/18/c8b951bc-b824-11eb-a6b1-81296da0339b_story.html%3foutputType=amp

[Bucky]

1. The campaign finance business is a dirty world

It's a shame there's not a way to completely isolate lobbying from fundraising. It's essentially legalized bribery and it's making our politics more corrupt than it needs to be

[Klaralven]

2. "Money is the mother's milk of politics."

"If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, take their money and then vote against them, you have no business being up here."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_M._Unruh

[tanyev]

3. That's very concerning.