More on NRCC scandal
Yesterday, we told you about an accounting scandal at the National Republican Congressional Committee, a scandal with a distinctly local twist: it centers on CJ Ward, who was the treasurer for both Jim Walsh and the NRCC, and it happened while Tom Reynolds was heading up the NRCC. Today, new details emerged (from the Politico):
Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), a certified public accountant, had pushed for months for an internal audit of the National Republican Congressional Committee, according to GOP members, but the committee’s treasurer at the time was reluctant.
Finally, at a recent meeting, the now former NRCC treasurer, Christopher J. Ward, relented, giving Conaway what was supposed to be an official internal audit from 2006. That document was a fake, the GOP members said. Even the letterhead on which it was sent was a forgery.
Revelations about the falsified document touched off an unfolding scandal that has rocked the NRCC and spurred a criminal investigation by the FBI into the committee’s accounting procedures.
[...]The former treasurer signed every FEC report the NRCC submitted from 1993 to 2003, and he was also affiliated with dozens of other Republican campaigns and leadership political action committees, some of which have already begun their own internal audits.
Licking my chops here. I wonder if the trickle-down effect means we get to peak in Minarik’s drawers?
Whoa-double entendre here-I gotta take a bath.
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