So what exactly is Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe being investigated for?
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First, the facts: CNN reported the investigation's existence Monday afternoon and seemed to suggest that the inquiry may include McAuliffe's connection to a Chinese billionaire businessman, Wang Wenliang, who has donated to McAuliffe's campaign.
The Washington Post's Matt Zapotosky reported Monday evening that the investigation may be much broader than McAuliffe's ties to Wang. An unnamed government official told Zapotosky that investigators have been scrutinizing McAuliffe's personal finances: "including personal bank records, tax returns and public disclosure forms that date back many years -- and are interested in foreign sources of income."
If true, both those investigations -- and they really are dealing with two different subjects, campaign finances and personal finances -- are serious, says John Dunbar, the political director at the Center for Public Integrity and a campaign finance expert.
"Broadly speaking, any donation that's connected to a foreign national is going to attract a heck of a lot of attention from state and federal investigators," he said (for reasons we'll get into below). But it's also rare for investigators to actually launch an investigation, which takes a ton of public resources, he said.
"If it's in fact true, then it's definitely serious," Dunbar said.
Then there's the question of how McAuliffe's personal finances may fold into this, which raises a whole other set of questions and implications we'll get to.
We spoke with Dunbar and combed through appropriate campaign finance laws to try to better understand what, exactly, the FBI and the Justice Department are investigating about McAuliffe (D). With the caveat that we can't answer that question yet, here's what we do know:
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