Just the kind of things to tweak one's curiosity when a story with words like "heavily edited," "FBI
document" and "election fraud" (not to mention "federal campaign
contribution laws" and "straw contributions") runs as a very obscure
News Brief in a relatively obscure paper. This needs research to
tie the links together, so consider this as an appetizer:
A
heavily edited version released Monday of an FBI document used to seize
records in an investigation into possible election fraud sheds little
additional light on the case.
The FBI is in the early stages of
a probe, led by the Justice Department’s Public Integrity section, of
allegations that companies with ties to the Catawba Indian Nation may
have violated federal campaign contributions laws. The allegations
include possible “straw” contributions made by one contributor in the
name of another.
Among the few new disclosures is that the
Washington, D.C.-based FBI agent who led an Aug. 31 search of New River
Management & Development, SPM (formerly Southern Property
Management) and Kapp Investments in Columbia specializes in cases of
public corruption and fraud against the government.
Nearly half
of agent Amylynn Miller’s 17-page affidavit, described as a “road map”
to the investigation, was entirely withheld from public disclosure by
U.S. Magistrate Judge Bristow Marchant.
My guess is that the name "Ralph Reed" and the axis of Abramoff-Delay-Tom Davis is lurking somewhere underneath
the black ink of the "road map" on these documents..
