US Attorney investigating RNC Chairman Michael Steele
A US Attorney’s office “erroneously” sent a confidential court document to The Washington Post after the Post requested a different file, exposing that the newly-elected chairman of the Republican National Committee had his 2006 Senate campaign pay his sister’s defunct company for services that were never performed — including $37,000 for “catering/web services” paid to her company 11 months after she filed to have it dissolved.Federal agents have contacted Steele’s sister, the chairman’s spokesman told the paper.
Former Steele campaign finance director Alan Fabian “offered the information last March as he was seeking leniency for himself during plea negotiations on unrelated fraud charges,” the Post said. “It is unclear how extensively his claims have been pursued. Prosecutors gave him no credit for cooperation when he was sentenced in October.”
Steele’s spokesman, Curt Anderson, dismissed the charges.
‘”It’s from, what, a convicted felon? And it has no substantiation in fact,” he said.
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