Joelle Fredman
WMAL.com
ANNAPOLIS — (AP/WMAL) The FBI has raided the office of a Republican consulting firm in Maryland in connection with an investigation into the 2013 Virginia governor’s race.
The FBI confirmed Thursday it served a search warrant in Annapolis, Maryland, but declined to elaborate.
Baltimore Sun reporter Michael Dresser told WMAL that the FBI entered the Strategic Campaign Group and the group’s president, Kelley Rogers, said agents took files and downloaded records from computers.
Rogers told reporters the investigation relates to work the consultant did for former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the GOP’s 2013 gubernatorial candidate.
The Cuccinelli campaign sued the consulting group after he lost the race to Gov. Terry McAuliffe, arguing that the firm did not properly spend all of the money donors contributed.
“Mr. Rogers told us that that lawsuit has been settled, but that he believes that the complaints that sparked the investigation must have come from the Cuccinelli camp,” Dresser said.
Cuccinelli told The Associated Press he has not been interviewed by law enforcement officials. He says he’s curious to see where the investigation leads.
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