Virginia Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe claimed that he wanted to protect the right of felons to vote. But he may have been preemptively protecting his own voting rights. Now the scandal-prone Clinton pal is facing an FBI investigation. At this rate, much of Clintonworld might end up in jail.
Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and prosecutors from the Justice Department's public integrity unit, U.S. officials briefed on the probe say.
The investigation dates to at least last year and has focused, at least in part, on whether donations to his gubernatorial campaign violated the law, the officials said.McAuliffe wasn't notified by investigators that he is a target of the probe, according to the officials.
Does this involve the Clintons? Does Bill Clinton have a long history as a sexual predator.
As part of the probe, the officials said, investigators have scrutinized McAuliffe's time as a board member of the Clinton Global Initiative, a vehicle of the charitable foundation set up by former President Bill Clinton.
And because it's 90s again, donations from Chinese businessmen connected to the regime are being scrutinized.
Among the McAuliffe donations that drew the interest of the investigators was $120,000 from a Chinese businessman, Wang Wenliang, through his U.S. businesses. Wang was previously delegate to China's National People's Congress, the country's ceremonial legislature.
As Al Gore would say, there's no legal controlling authority. McAuliffe is a longtime Clinton ally who has been in and out of ethical trouble before.
Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton have their own separate circles of personal friends and political advisers. But confidants say the McAuliffes are the rare individuals who cross into both spheres, part of a genuine friendship that is unusual at the highest level of politics.
The two couples are “as close to family as it can be without being blood, and it may even be blood by osmosis after all the time they’ve spent next to each other,” said John Morgan, a lawyer who co-hosted the Orlando area fundraiser for about 30 donors. “It has transcended friendship into love.”
Well I hope prison won't separate them.