Once in a while, a reporter finds a story that challenges his or her ability to tell because it is so massive in terms of time and scope. He or she feels over-whelmed. This reporter feels that way, but let’s begin anyway. This story will attempt to show the reader the journey that this reporter has been on to discover what is most likely one of the largest money laundering evolutions in the history of this country.

First Indications of Massive Money Laundering – 2019

Six years ago in October of 2019, I was downloading data from the FEC database, which by the way is quite easy to do. As I compiled the data I found that three Michigan Congresswomen had received about 75% of their total incoming campaign donations from out of the state of Michigan. At that time, this reporter was both amazed and confused. How could this possibly be? I decided to compile this information and wrote letters to William Barr (Attorney General), Christopher Wray (Director of FBI) and Matthew Schneider (US Attorney of SE Michigan). A copy of this letter which was sent to all three officials is as follows:

In this letter I defined my purpose as:

“The purpose of this letter is to request a thorough investigation into the legitimacy of campaign donations of three Michigan Congressional Districts, MI 8th, MI 11th and MI 13th. The extremely high “out of state” component of the individual donations and other factors strongly suggest a preponderance of “conduits” AKA straw donors which is a violation of Title 52, United States Code, Sections 30122 and 30109(a)(1)(A).”  ---More...