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The FBI is having a really difficult time keeping up with all of the Democrat scandals this election cycle. Just yesterday we noted another raid of a democrat "advocacy group" in Delaware County, PA that was allegedly submitting falsified voter registration forms and, of course, we're all intimately familiar with Hillary's assorted investigations.Now, according to The Hill, the FBI has also been forced to open another election-related investigation tied to the Florida Senate Race between Marco Rubio (R) and Patrick Murphy (D). The investigation is related to whether a long-time Murphy friend, Ibrahim Al-Rashid, utilized an illegal "straw donor" fundraising scheme to funnel money from his wealthy Saudi family to the Murphy campaign. The scheme effectively attempts to skirt federal election laws governing campaign contributions by making donations in the name of other citizens. The FBI is investigating an alleged illegal donation scheme involving a wealthy Saudi family that supports Democratic Florida Senate candidate Patrick Murphy. The allegation — originally submitted by a Republican super PAC run by a former top aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — is that Murphy’s high school friend and major political donor, Ibrahim Al-Rashid, coordinated a “straw donor” scheme to boost Murphy. A straw donor scheme occurs when a wealthy donor skirts legal limits on political donations by funneling money into campaigns using other people’s names. For any charges to be backed in the Al-Rashid investigation, the FBI must prove that the person or people running the scheme reimbursed donors without their permission. It would also be illegal to agree to be the named donors using somebody else’s money. The GOP super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, claimed in its June complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that 11 donors in Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida “participated in an unlawful scheme to funnel Ibrahim Al-Rashid’s contributions, or were used by Al-Rashid to funnel contributions without their knowledge.” A total of $24,050 was involved. Al-Rashid is the son of a powerful and politically connected Saudi billionaire. He’s been a major financial benefactor of Murphy’s, giving almost $400,000 to his campaigns and to outside groups supporting the Florida congressman.While the Murphy campaign denies any wrongdoing, some of the facts surrounding the case are rather suspicious. For example, one $300 donation was made in the name of a woman whose federal donation forms claimed she was the owner of a Texas-based company named Limestone Property Management. Unfortunately, a quick search of public records reveal that the woman is not associated with the Texas business. Moreover, a 2012 police report from the Miami-Dade Police Department reveals that the donor was actually Al-Rashid's cleaning lady.
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Topic: FBI Investigating Alleged "Straw Donor" Scheme Linked To Democrat Patrick Murphy In Florida Senate Race (Read 665 times)
