Thread: Rand Paul super PAC head indicted over alleged 2012 campaign finance violations

Rand Paul super PAC head indicted over alleged 2012 campaign finance violations

By Sean Sullivan August 5 at 12:45 PM


Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, listens as campaign chairman Jesse Benton has a word with him as he signs autographs at the Cass County Community Center in Atlantic, Iowa, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Jesse Benton, a longtime ally of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) who is heading up a super PAC supporting his presidential campaign, was indicted Wednesday on charges that he concealed payments to a former Iowa state senator.

The charges stem from an alleged endorsement-for-pay scheme during the 2012 presidential campaign of former Republican congressman Ron Paul of Texas. Two others were also indicted.

“Federal campaign finance laws are intended to ensure the integrity and transparency of the federal election process,” said Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell in a statement announcing the indictment. “When political operatives make under-the-table payments to buy an elected official’s political support, it undermines public confidence in our entire political system.”

Benton is married to the granddaughter of Ron Paul, Rand Paul's father. He's been a close family confidant since 2007.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...ce-violations/

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http://www.alipac.us/f19/former-iowa...upport-310057/

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http://www.alipac.us/f9/%92s-actuall...ver-up-321843/

Many of us here in NC who were Ron Paul supporters knew that Jesse Benton was not doing what he should have been doing. I am not surprised that he has been indicted. He's worthless and I guess Ron loved his granddaughter too much to suspect that there was a problem.