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It's all just tweets at this point. A tweet from Guardian reporter Jon Swaine:
Rand Paul ally Jesse Benton has been indicted on federal charges related to payments to Iowa state senator in 2012, DoJ just announced
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And three tweets from Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein:
Damn. DOJ indicts Jesse Benton, son in law of Ron Paul and head of Rand Paul’s super PAC. stemming from ’12 campaign payment concealments
Indictment says Paul staffers offered to pay Sorenson salary to switch from Bachmann. Then held back $25k payment when it became public
Paul staffers then hid payments to Sorenson by sending it to certain firms and labelling it “Audio/Visual Expenses"
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Bwahahahahaha - good luck with your campaign, AquaBuddha.
Update 1:
A bit more now from Business Insider:
Two top allies of presidential candidate and US Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) were charged with violating campaign finance laws during the 2012 presidential campaign, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Jesse Benton, who worked on the presidential bid of Paul's father, Ron, was named as one of three political operatives in the alleged scheme to conceal payments to an Iowa state senator.
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John Tate, who is listed as the group's founder and president, was also named in the charges. The other operative named was Dimitrios Kesari.
The indictment was based on six counts, including conspiracy, filing false records, false statements, and obstruction of justice.
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