Eckersley: FBI Has Opened Investigation Into Campaign Fraud Complaint (of new GOP rep)

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Scott Eckersley, who ran on the Democratic ticket last November for Missouri’s 7th Congressional seat and lost to Billy Long, says his complaint on campaign fraud is now being formally investigated by the U.S. Justice Department. KSMU’s Jennifer Moore has this report.

Eckersley said the FBI office in Springfield contacted him this week and confirmed that the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into his complaint of election fraud.

Eckersley filed a complaint after a fake email was sent to local media in his name just days before the election, falsely claiming that he had dropped out of the race.

“What the FBI informed me is that it would take a simple warrant to figure out who sent the email. So, you know, I think there are some people who are going to have to answer for what appears to be election fraud,” Eckersley said.

Eckersley says he believes the email was linked to now-Congressman Billy Long. Eckersley says the main thing he’s basing that theory on is that his own campaign’s IT staffer was able to track the email to a man in Addison, Illinois, who had gone to school with Long’s daughter in Springfield.

“I think also the denials on the part of Mr. Long are pretty incredulous as well, based on the information that came from a facebook page and Twitter accounts where there seemed to be an obvious connection between the individual that it seems likely was behind this, Mr. Long and his campaign, and the folks running his campaign,” he said.

http://www.ksmu.org/content/view/7914/66/


MO 7th District.

[Drale]

1. So if someone is found guilty of campaign fraud

do they lose their elected office? Because that is what should happen.