Feds win fight for access to indicted Paul aide's Gmail

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/28/feds-win-fight-for-access-to-indicted-paul-aide-gmail/?intcmp=hplnws

DES MOINES, Iowa –  Federal prosecutors prevailed Friday in their yearlong fight to force Google Inc. to turn over the emails of an indicted Republican consultant with close ties to Ron and Rand Paul.

U.S. District Judge John Jarvey rejected a request to quash a warrant ordering Google to give the FBI the contents of Jesse Benton's Gmail account, which he used to work on Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's 2014 re-election bid.

Benton had been leading a super PAC supporting Rand Paul's presidential campaign until he was indicted earlier this month. He and two other top aides from Ron Paul's 2012 campaign are charged with conspiring to secretly pay off an Iowa state senator to endorse Paul before that year's Iowa caucuses. They pleaded not guilty in an Iowa federal court.

Under Jarvey's order, Google will be legally required to divulge tens of thousands of emails sent and received by Benton between March 2011 and July 2014.

Guy Cook, a lawyer for Google, said Friday that the company would respect the