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Showing Original Post only (View all)BOOM!!- Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann Are UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION For Several Federal CRIMES [View all]
A new report revealed that both Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann are under federal investigation related to numerous potential crimes that were committed during their 2012 presidential campaigns.
OpenSecrets reported,

OpenSecrets Blog has learned that FBI agents have been interviewing a slew of witnesses connected to Ron Pauls presidential campaign and grand jury subpoenas have been issued for email records from campaign officials. And in addition to payments to a Maryland video company that were routed to Sorenson in exchange for his endorsement, OpenSecrets has identified an additional suspicious payment by Pauls campaign that may be linked to a $25,000 check to Sorenson from a jewelry store connected to a Paul operative.
Sources say two grand juries are looking into the 2012 campaigns of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), whom Sorenson originally endorsed, and Paul, to whom Sorenson switched his support just days before the Iowa caucuses. A number of individuals confirmed to OpenSecrets Blog that they had been interviewed by FBI agents, the grand juries, or both.
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The subpoena lists several possible crimes being investigated including false reporting of campaign finance data by federal campaign committees, false statements to the FEC, obstruction of justice and concealing a federal crime.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/09/two-grand-juries-continuing-probe-into-2012-iowa-payola-scandal/
This is the same scandal that already took down Mitch McConnells former campaign manager, and Ron Pauls grandson in law, Jesse Benton. There are currently two federal grand juries investigating Bachmann and Paul on top of the previously known FBI investigation of Bachmann. The bribery scandal could go much deeper than first reported. The scandal has already impacted the 2014 Kentucky Senate race and could devastate Rand Pauls 2016 presidential campaign. Sen. Paul was going to be using the campaign structure that his father had put into place during his two previous bids for the Republican nomination.
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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/09/04/ron-paul-michele-bachmann-fbi-investigation-federal-crimes.html
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BOOM!!- Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann Are UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION For Several Federal CRIMES [View all]
Segami
Sep 2014
OP
You are not the only one....Love to see her spend a little time in slammerville...nt
Stuart G
Sep 2014
#9
I'd rather see men in white uniforms chase her around with a man-sized butterfly net
FSogol
Sep 2014
#12
I'm wondering if somehow we can find out if his dear darling son the Kentucky Pipsqueak is involved.
calimary
Sep 2014
#44
Perry and Bachmann will just find a way to blame Iowa corn dogs for their problems!
cascadiance
Sep 2014
#18
With Bachmann and these bums on overdrive, I think we "Ain't seen nothing yet!"
cascadiance
Sep 2014
#75
It'll just endear them to the Teabagger Republicans that much more! 10 point bounce!
blkmusclmachine
Sep 2014
#19
I worry that things like this and McDonnell convictions might influence voters.
merrily
Sep 2014
#26
Rand Paul was going to use the campaign structure that his father used the past two times?
rocktivity
Sep 2014
#28
Michelle, my lu-ny belle, while well past bat-shit crazy, surely you would not do anything even
indepat
Sep 2014
#30
I was trying to imagine that to the tune of "Michelle" ... didn't work ...
eppur_se_muova
Sep 2014
#45
Anyone who doesn't understand that Ron Paul bribed an Iowa elected official is a moron
alcibiades_mystery
Sep 2014
#47
I am getting real nervous. Tell me when Jeb F'n Bush is under investigation. Seems like all his
rhett o rick
Sep 2014
#49