Another Clinton-involved scandal? FBI probes Virginia governor

Terry McAuliffe, Virginia’s governor

It could be the makings of yet another Clinton-involved scandal: Virginia Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe – a board member of the Clinton Global Initiative – is under investigation by the FBI and the Justice Department’s public integrity unit concerning possibly illegal campaign donations.

The probe focuses in part on whether McAuliffe accepted unlawful donations to his gubernatorial campaign, including $120,000 from Chinese businessman Wang Wenliang, a previous delegate to China’s National People’s Congress, the nation’s ceremonial legislature.

Wang has also donated $2 million to the Clinton foundation, according to CNN.

“The governor will certainly cooperate with the government if he is contacted about it,” Marc Elias, attorney for the McAuliffe campaign, told CNN in a statement.

As part of the investigation, officials are examining McAuliffe’s role as a board member of the Clinton Global Initiative.

The news organization reported, “There’s no allegation that the foundation did anything improper; the probe has focused on McAuliffe and the electoral campaign donations, the officials said.”

Elias claimed the contributions from Wenliang were completely legal.

“Neither the governor nor his former campaign has knowledge of this matter, but as reported, contributions to the campaign from Mr. Wang were completely lawful,” Elias told CNN.

Foreign nationals are banned from donating to federal, state and local elections, according to U.S. election laws.

A spokeswoman told CNN that Wenliang has U.S. permanent resident status, allowing him to donate to McAuliffe’s campaign.

CNN reported, “It couldn’t be learned what else the FBI and Justice Department are investigating as part of the [McAuliffe] probe.”

As WND reported, the left-leaning website Counterpunch called McAuliffe the Clintons’ “chief emissary” whose “implacable loyalty” was amply rewarded in 2001.

That’s when “Bill Clinton engineered the ouster of Joe Andrew as head of the DNC and installed McAuliffe … as the chief of the party. As the head of the DNC, McAuliffe was now in a position to protect the Clintons’ legacy, reward loyalists, punish party dissidents and select the next presidential nominee.”

Back in 2004, the website claimed, “Terry McAuliffe didn’t just use his business contacts to fatten the accounts of the Democratic National Committee; he also deftly exploited them to inflate his own fortune, which now nudges toward nine figures.”

The Washington Post called McAuliffe “a Washington insider who got rich as he rose to power within the Democratic Party” and “even called himself a ‘huckster’ in his autobiography.”

“For McAuliffe, politics and business have always been intertwined,” the paper stated.

According to Watchdog.org, “McAuliffe even put up $1.35 million toward the purchase of a New York home for Bill and Hillary in 1999, when the Clintons were burdened by legal debts from the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal and Hillary needed to establish residency for a U.S. Senate run from the Empire State.”

 

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