Michele Bachmann Presidential Campaign Investigation Joined By FBI

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The FBI has jumped into a multi-pronged investigation of alleged misconduct by the failed presidential campaign of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on Sunday.

While the FBI wouldn't confirm or deny any involvement in the probe, sources with knowledge of the campaign and the investigation told the Star Tribune that the FBI had made inquiries about former Bachmann chief of staff Andy Parrish, as well as other former staffers.

News that Bachmann's campaign had drawn an ethics investigation first broke in March, and the extent of alleged violations has only expanded since then. Newer claims include allegations of secret payments to campaign aide and Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson (R), as well as improper use of Bachmann's leadership PAC funds to pay a political director for the campaign.

Parrish said in a sworn affidavit in April that Bachmann "knew and approved" of payments to Sorenson. Peter Waldron, Bachmann's former national field coordinator, has also filed a complaint alleging that Bachmann's campaign funneled leadership PAC money through a fundraising group to pay Sorenson, a claim that has also reportedly drawn the attention of the FBI, according to the Star Tribune. Sorenson has denied these allegations.

As the Iowa Republican website points out, the FBI becomes the latest in a long line of agencies now involved in the probe of Bachmann's campaign. The Federal Election Commission, the Office of Congressional Ethics, the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee and the Urbandale Police Department have all mounted their own investigations into various aspects of the numerous claims.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/michele-bachmann-fbi_n_3306186.html

[Blue Owl]

2. With each passing day...

The retrospective idea of Michele Bachmann actually running for president becomes more and more frighteningly disturbing.

GAH!

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Another FBI witch hunt--

But for the first time in known history, they are hunting an actual witch.*



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*And no, I'm not intending to pick on Wiccans or whatever. I'm using "witch" in the sense that the Fundies (and other witch-hunters) do--an evil soul in league with Satan.

[AndyA]

4. I hope this shuts her up, if nothing else

I get so sick of seeing her on TV with her latest crazy accusation, and/or wasting time griping about Obamacare.

She should be held accountable, just as she attempts to hold others accountable for the wrongs she imagines they've done.

I still can't believe Minnesota has elected her more than once! She has really done nothing for her constituents. Hopefully, she won't be returning after her term in office ends. I'm sure there's some crazy, right wing think tank that she'll be able to work for where she'll fit right in.

[Aerows]

5. I love it

when the self-arbiter of all morality is found to have broken social codes, laws and their own supposed code of morality.

"Thou shalt not bear false witness." Said Michelle Bachmann to nobody, since she apparently can't resist doing it herself.

"Thou shalt not steal." Again, said Michelle Bachmann to nobody, since she is guilty of it.

Oh, wait, she did, and the chickens are coming home to pay for the medical bills.

I mean roost.