FBI probing figure linked to 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth; Accused of forging campaign audit

[RamboLiberal]

The Politico revealed on Wednesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had initiated a probe of a former treasurer of the National Republican Congressional Committee over the forging of a 2006 election audit. But it left out an important detail: the official in question served as a partner at a firm that was retained by the Swift Boat Veterans and Prioners of War for Truth in 2004 to perform legal compliance work.

A report in Wednesday's Politico from Patrick O'Connor and John Bresnahan reveals that the NRCC, which raises funds for the political campaigns of House Republicans, is auditing its own books due to what may be an FBI fraud investigation of Christopher J. Ward, who served as NRCC treasurer until Aug. 2007.

While the Politico report noted that Ward had been serving the NRCC as a private contractor since last year, it failed to note that he was also at one time a partner with the Fairfax, Virginia-based Political Compliance Services, Inc., a firm that specializes in filing reports with the Federal Election Commission on behalf of political candidates and campaigns.

PCS, Inc., according to earlier reports, was retained by the Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth in the run-up to the 2004 presidential election.

"Since the spring of 2004, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth paid Ward’s firm nearly $230,000 for services ranging from database management to website consulting, according to disbursements archived at PoliticalMoneyLine, a nonpartisan website that tracks fundraising," according to a July 2007 report in The Hill.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/FBI_probing_figure_linked_to_2004_0206.html

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1. I think this is a huge story.

Remember what else occurred in the Spring of 2004? 8 Billion dollars of money sent to Iraq went unaccounted for....poof...vanished. This was $ that was 'managed' by vetted Republicans only. I'm betting that the balance sheet shows large, undocumented inflow transactions and disbursements to candidates and other "expenses" that were unaccounted for...because it took a lot of money in 2004 to game the election.