Most politicians make it through an election cycle without being tainted by a straw-man donor scheme, but Rep. Patrick Murphy is no ordinary politician. The Florida challenger to Marco Rubio’s Senate seat wound up connected to not just one but two straw-man donor schemes in three days — albeit apparently unwittingly. The FBI has opened up an investigating an alleged pipeline of crony cash into Murphy’s flailing campaign:
The FBI is investigating an alleged illegal donation scheme involving a wealthy Saudi family that supports Democratic Florida Senate candidate Patrick Murphy.
The Hill has found no evidence that Murphy himself was involved in, or even aware of, the alleged scheme. The Murphy campaign declined to say whether the candidate is aware of the FBI probe, but the campaign said neither Murphy nor his campaign staff is being investigated. …
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.
Al-Rashid didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. And Murphy’s campaign declined to say whether Murphy’s attorneys had discussed the FBI investigation with Al-Rashid’s attorney.
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