Has Craig Berkman really escaped notice so far on dailykos? I don't get any hits on a search.
With so much Republican sleaze on tap, I suppose it's easy to miss one more scandal. But this one seems pretty big to me.
Craig Berkman is the former chair of the Oregon GOP, and he ran for US Senate as a Republican, too. He now stands accused of bilking more than $33 million dollars from investors in his venture-capital funds.
Most of that money came from British Columbia's public pension fund, which funds the retirement of thousands of retired public employees.
Honestly, I'm surprised that there is only a civil lawsuit. Given the evidence presented in the article, I think that Berkman should be indicted for fraud.
(There is also a shorter article here which gives the Republican angle a little stronger emphasis.)