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Michael S. Steele: US Attorney probed RNC chairman for financial fraud

The right-wing blogosphere is obsessed with the tax issues involving a small number of Obama appointees (EX: Gateway Pundit). However, they seem to be unconcerned about the scandal developing in their own back yard. The new Republican National Chairman is engulfed in a ruckus of his own and the righties are eerily silent. It looks like the conservative savior may just be another republican hack with a crooked history. We will see if the mainstream press will cover this republican scandal with the same intensity as they have gone after Tom Daschle.  - Robert

Paid sister for bogus services, ex-finance chairman says

A US Attorney’s office “erroneously” sent a confidential court document to The Washington Post after the Post requested a different file, exposing that the newly-elected chairman of the Republican National Committee had his 2006 Senate campaign pay his sister’s defunct company for services that were potentially never performed — including $37,000 for “catering/web services” paid to her company 11 months after she filed to have it dissolved.

Federal agents have contacted Steele’s sister, the chairman’s spokesman told the paper. Former Steele campaign finance director Alan Fabian offered the information to the US Attorney’s office as part of attempt to seek leniency for himself in another case.

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