FBI, Police Investigate Dem w/Suspicious Ties To GOP Congres

FBI, Miami-Dade police target Democratic primary candidate with possible ties to Congressman David Rivera

The FBI and Miami-Dade police have opened separate criminal investigations into the campaign of a Democratic congressional candidate who, vendors say, was aided by GOP Rep. David Rivera.

Federal agents gathered campaign records, invoices and began interviewing employees at two mail and data companies used by Democrat Justin Lamar Sternad’s primary campaign. Sternad spent about $43,000 in unreported cash and checks on mail services, a witness told The Herald and authorities. Some of the money was stuffed in envelopes bulging with $100 bills.

Federal law required Sternad to quickly report any contributions — including loans —just before the Aug. 14 primary, which he lost to Democrat Joe Garcia, a longtime Rivera rival who Sternad bashed in one of his 11 mailers.

Rivera, investigators suspect, was behind the sophisticated mail campaign run by Sternad, who was an unknown political newcomer and hotel night auditor.

Rivera already faces a federal investigation tied to his personal and campaign finances, which came under scrutiny due to a secret $500,000 dog-track payment in 2008. He narrowly avoided 52 state charges as part of an investigation that showed a campaign ally converted $190,000 in cash that essentially disappeared in 2010

It’s unclear how Sternad afforded any mailers used in his race, let alone the large sums of cash.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/22/2 ... crats.html

Ooopsie... Looks like another Rep got caught in another campaign "dirty trick." It's so hard to keep up with all of them... I wonder if a photo-ID would have helped?

Like the 2 million the Dems spent in Missouri to get Akins elected?

Prove it.

The only thing I see is an alleged $1.5 million, and the only sources I see it on are FauxNews, Redstate, AmericanConservativeNews, ConservativeByte, and all the rest of the Rightie echo-chamber... :Snooze

But if they did, it was worth every penny...

However, that's not the same thing as hiring some goofball off the street and bankrolling his campaign out of your own pocket to defeat your other opponent... No, it would take the Machiavellian GOP brain to come up with that.

...and the HuffPo is the typical deaf, dumb and blind when it comes to showing the Left in a bad light.

No, you mean the Miami Herald, the Miami-Dade police, and the FBI.... Please try to pay attention....

Oh... You mean the alleged and unproven donation to Akin by the Dems? rofllol

I am always amused at your attempts to find false-equivalencies between the parties to cry "They did it too."

See, the GOP has been donating money, and running fake candidates in Democratic primaries for decades. They've made a career out of it. If the Dems donated money to a bat-sh*t-crazy Republican to help him win, that's legal. He was already a candidate, and was filing election reports as required by federal law. There was no wrong-doing; there was no illegality. Basically, it was hoisting the Republicans on their own petard, using their own tactics.

In this case what we have is a Republican who was too stupid to not get caught doing it. He hired a patsy, funded the patsy's campaign, and they were too stupid to file the necessary reports to hide the money. They trace the money back to the Party-of-Stupid Republican, and oopsie--We now have the police and the FBI in on the investigation.

See, one is LEGAL...and the other is ILLEGAL... I realize it's a stretch for you to recognize the difference. But "they did it too" doesn't work this time because there is no equivalency...

Nice try though....