GOP firm raided by FBI -ties to Manafort, casinos & TOUTED FOR USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN CAMPAIGNS

[MelissaB]

Last edited Thu May 11, 2017, 03:31 PM - Edit history (1)

Interesting. Possible GOP firm just raided by FBI has lobbying ties to casinos. Who else has run casinos?

Annapolis firm targeted by FBI touted for pioneering the use of technology in political campaigns. Represents GOP candidates nationwide

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Can we say RICO yet?

[TNLib]

1. Oh Snap!

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[bathroommonkey76]

2. Kick & Rec! Wooohooo!

[marybourg]

3. "Possible" GOP firm?

What does that mean? It say right on their website that they're a GOP firm.

[MelissaB]

4. Holy f*ck. Guess what else? Touted for pioneering the use of technology in political campaigns

Annapolis firm targeted by FBI touted for pioneering the use of technology in political campaigns. Represents GOP candidates nationwide

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[MelissaB]

5. I updated the op with this because I think this will be important.

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. According to Mensch's feed and associated threads,

RICO and other crimes will eat up Trump, Pence, Ryan, Priebus, and others. We may get President Hatch. They apparently used the GOP 2016 campaign to launder Russian money.

The FBI raid is Trump-related.

Grand Juries are issuing subpeonas and warrants. Today. They are both federal and New York GJs.

[MelissaB]

7. FBI confirms activity in Annapolis

FBI confirms activity in Annapolis

by Amanda Yeager

Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations were in Annapolis Thursday to investigate an organization with offices in the vicinity of Main Street, a spokesperson for the bureau confirmed.

Media reports on Twitter linked the site of the activity to the address of a Republican fundraising and consulting firm. FBI officials wouldn't confirm whether their investigation was linked to the organization.

FBI spokeswoman Lindsay Ram said the investigation is being conducted through the bureau's Washington field office, which has jurisdiction in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia. She said agents from the office sometimes cross over into other jurisdictions when the entity they are investigating has offices in multiple locations.

This is developing story, and will be updated as more details become available.

Link: http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/for_the_record/ph-ac-cn-fbi-raid-0512-20170511-story.html

[Orrex]

8. I'll listen to NPR on the way home

They'll probably mention this in a three-second blurb and then spend two hours talking about the election in France and how to maximize the return on your stock portfolio.

[oasis]

9. FBI is going to clean the swamp.

They're not going to stop until they've connected all of the dots.

[MelissaB]

10. It has ties to Manafort!

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[MelissaB]

11. From the Washington Examiner:

FBI raids Republican campaign consultants in Maryland
by Kyle Feldscher | May 11, 2017, 3:18 PM

The FBI executed a search warrant at a Republican consulting and fundraising firm in Annapolis, Md. on Thursday afternoon.

According to a report from WBAL, the search at the Strategic Campaign Group began Thursday afternoon.

The TV station reported the investigation is based out of FBI headquarters in Washington and is not a local investigation.

Strategic Campaign Group described itself on its website as a full-service campaign group that helps with direct mail, telemarketing, print advertising, e-mail advertising, creating lists of voters, polling and advertising on TV and radio. The group also pioneered the use of telephone town hall services.

Link: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fbi-raids-republican-campaign-consultants-in-maryland/article/2622839

[MelissaB]

12. Other people are saying ties to Roger Stone, but

I'm going to wait for a little more confirmation before I add that to the OP.

[pnwmom]

13. Here's more info on Whitfield's Manafort/Stone connection.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-11/republican-fundraising-firm-in-maryland-raided-by-fbi-reports

Strategic Campaign Group’s vice president is former congressional aide Chip O’Neil, according to the group’s website. Its senior adviser is Dennis Whitfield, who served as chief of staff for the U.S. trade representative and then as deputy secretary of labor under President Ronald Reagan.

Whitfield has also provided political and communications advice to U.S. and foreign corporations, and was executive vice president of the American Conservative Union, which organizes the annual American Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC.

Whitfield was also a director at BKSH and Associates, where he provided strategic government relations counseling. That firm was formed in 1996 when Paul Manafort and Roger Stone left Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly and it merged with Gold and Liebengood. Manafort and Stone both went on to become close advisers to Trump. They had departed by the time Whitfield joined the firm.

[MelissaB]

14. Thanks!