FBI Investigating Alleged "Straw Donor" Scheme Linked To Democrat Patrick Murphy In Florida Senate Race
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by Tyler Durden
Nov 2, 2016 7:20 PM

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.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-02/fbi-investigating-alleged-straw-donor-scheme-linked-democrat-murphy-florida-senate-r