The Republican who knocked off Russ Feingold has found himself in a bit of trouble. He loaned himself $9,000.000.00 to run for the Senate. Then, after he won, the company he formerly ran paid him $10,000.000.00 in “deferred compensation”. The two numbers align up well, and suspicious minds might suspect that his corporation actually funded his campaign, and-wouldn’t you know it-suspicious minds are saying exactly that. Turns out that without a written compensation agreement signed before he ran for office he should be in a peck of trouble.
I’m no election law expert, but it seems to me there’s as much of a whiff of impropriety about this as there was about the tawdry John Edwards situation. Will this be another example of IOKYAR, or will the Justice Department sit up and take notice? Stay tuned, but don’t hold your breath.
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