ANOKA COUNTY, Minn. – Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is at the center of a congressional ethics investigation. The investigation stems from allegations made by a former staffer on the Congresswoman’s failed Presidential bid.
Peter Waldron, a well-known evangelist who served as a national field coordinator for the Bachmann campaign, filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission alleging that the campaign used money from Michele PAC, Bachmann’s political action committee, to pay a direct mail fundraising consultant.
PACs are not allowed to reimburse consultants for campaign work. Waldron has also accused the campaign of concealing payments to a state official in Iowa who is now the subject of a police investigation and lawsuit related to the campaign’s use of an e-mail list of Iowa home-school families.
Finally, Waldron has also accused the campaign of withholding payments to former staffers who refused to sign confidentiality agreements.
An attorney for the Congresswoman stated this week that there are no allegations that the Congresswoman engaged in any wrongdoing and Bachmann’s spokesperson claimed that the disclosure of the ethics review was the work of political adversaries.
