Group To Ask Justice Department To Probe McCain's Bundlers

Group To Ask Justice Department To Probe McCain's Bundlers

By http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/sargent">Greg Sargent - August 8, 2008, 4:22PM

This is interesting: A good government group is set to ask the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into the two big McCain stories of recent days -- the bundled contributions from Hess executives, and the bundling by Harry Sargeant, the guy who raised cash for McCain from a host of unlikely donors.

The request, which will be made on Monday by Campaign Money Watch, which http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/oil_company_executives.php">first flagged the Hess story to us, raises at least the possibility that such a probe could be initiated during the campaign. Barring that, it could keep the stories going in the press a bit.

David Donnelly of Campaign Money Watch confirms to me that they'll make the formal request on Monday, and MoveOn also is demanding a Federal probe in an email that just went out to supporters. Donnelly says that his group's request is being triggered by McCain'shttp://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/mccainletter.pdf"> letter to the donors whose contributions had been bundled by Sargeant.

Donnelly said that the letter, which advised the donors of the legal ins-and-outs of such contributions, didn't go far enough in trying to determine what had happened.

"What he didn't say was, `Tell us who was responsible for giving you money to give to me, and we'll urge the authorities to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law,'" Donnelly said. "The letter raises the question, 'Is the McCain campaign covering for his bundlers?'"


http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/group_to_ask_justice_departmen.php">Full article here

Sadly it is working well as shown by the threads on DU.

Hopefully people will get back on track and not let McCain get away on this.

"Is the McCain campaign covering for his BLUNDERS?"

Scrabble anyone?