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Bachmann's pardon request reversed
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| Last Edited | RP Oct 26, 2008 05:38pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, October 26, 2008 11:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann wrote a letter last year recommending a federal pardon for a major campaign contributor who was once convicted of felony money laundering, firearm and drug charges on the basis he had reformed.
This month, she withdrew that recommendation on behalf of Frank E. Vennes Jr., eight days after the FBI searched his Shorewood home and office and confiscated documents, money, art, coins and jewels that agents think may be related to a $3 billion investment fraud scheme in which Minnesota business mogul Tom Petters has been charged.
Vennes and his wife have donated a total of $27,600 to Bachmann’s 2006 and 2008 election campaigns and related committees, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
Of that, $9,200 came during the 2008 election cycle and has since been donated to charity, said Michelle Marston, Bachmann’s campaign manager.
“She’s known him several years through some connections with Twin Cities charities,” Marston said of Bachmann’s relationship with Vennes. “She knew about his attempt to turn his whole life around. It would appear that his public act of contrition wasn’t quite what it should have been.” |
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