(Via TPM and Politico)
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.Looks like another popcorn-worthy scandal is brewing.
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.
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[Ward] 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.
Ward has not responded to repeated attempts to seek comment.
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The acknowledgment that the committee’s financial records might be inaccurate or falsified opens the possibility that the accounting problems could run much deeper than initially suggested in [NRCC Chairman Tom] Cole’s original public statement on the matter.
Follow the "no comments," and you know you're on the right trail.
Late edit: As well as following the people rushing to disassociate themselves.
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