talk.politics.misc

Edwards Donor Indicted For Circumventing Campaign Finance Laws
by Matt Margolis :: August 25, 2007 1:37 PM


From The Detriot Free Press:

Attorney Geoffrey Fieger and one of his law partners have been indicted by
the . government, which accused the pair of making $127,000 in illegal
campaign contributions to the 2004 presidential campaign of John Edwards.

The indictment was unsealed today at the . District Court in Detroit
and accuses Fieger and Vernon Johnson of violating the $2,000 per election
federal limit on individual contributions to presidential candidates.

The indictment accuses them of soliciting 60 "straw donors" to also
contribute the $2,000 maximum to Edwards and then reimbursing them for their
contributions through funds from their Southfield-based Fieger, Fieger,
Kenney & Johnson PC firm.

In researching for Caucus of Corruption, I know this indictment is the
result of a long investigation that, like the Jefferson indictment, took
probably much longer than it needed to. Despite this, and the ample amounts
of evidence against him, Fieger is claiming that he is the target of a
political motivated investigation.

MORE: . VS. FIEGER: He's accused of illegal political donations

UPDATE, 8/28/2007: Arraignment today.