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Thu May 2, 2013, 09:39 AM May 2013

Iowa Ethics Panel Seeks Investigation Into Bachmann Aide

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/05/02/iowa_ethics_panel_seeks_investigation_into_bachmann_aide.html

May 02, 2013

Iowa Ethics Panel Seeks Investigation Into Bachmann Aide


"Iowa's Supreme Court chief justice will appoint an independent investigator with full subpoena powers to probe alleged ethics and criminal violations by Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson, who is accused of being paid to work on U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's 2012 presidential campaign," the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.

"In a 4-2 bipartisan vote, the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee voted Wednesday to request that an independent counsel investigate two charges against Sorenson. The investigator also will look into allegations that Sorenson stole a private database of home-school families from the personal computer of another Bachmann campaign worker, then used it to solicit campaign support from thousands of home-school families in Iowa."

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