Subject: ‘Assembly line’ for illegal campaign donations alleged in probe of D.C. politics Sat Jun 22, 2013 8:53 pm
The corruption investigation that has roiled D.C. politics for two years has uncovered a highly organized operation inside an accounting firm that funneled illegal contributions to scores of political campaigns, according to new court documents filed Thursday.
For nearly a decade, Jeffrey E. Thompson’s accounting firm was an “assembly line” for donations, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. said. The documents suggest that many employees or their relatives wrote checks to campaigns for D.C. Council, mayor, Congress and other offices to disguise the fact that the money was actually coming from Thompson.