GOPers indicted for serving as conduits for foreign money (shocking, I know :) ). Wonder if the Arizona Republican Party will give back the donations.

Turns out that a corruption case in DC has some serious AZ ties.

From Politico -

Longtime GOP operatives charged with funneling Russian national’s money to Trump, RNC

Two veteran Republican campaign operatives — including one who got a pardon from then-President Donald Trump one month before he left office — are charged in a new federal indictment with funneling $25,000 from a Russian national into the Trump campaign in 2016.

Jesse Benton, 43, and Doug Wead, 75, made brief appearances Monday at a video hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, pleading not guilty to six felony charges including facilitating a campaign contribution by a foreign national, acting as a straw donor and causing the filing of false campaign finance reports.

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For example, the indictment’s reference to a $25,000 donation on Oct. 27, 2016, to a political committee by Benton — allegedly to cover up the foreign source of the money — lines up with a donation of the same size and date to Trump’s political committee attributed to a “Jesse Bentor,” which prosecutors said is a garbling of Benton’s name.

While I didn't find any contributions to current GOP members of the AZ delegation to Congress, the penchant of electeds to seek and accept "bundled" contributions, I expect most of them are hoping that none of the money that they received came from foreign nationals.

From the website of the FEC (the blacked out name is that of someone with a similar name who donated to a GOPer, but is someone who doesn't seem to be part of this scheme) -

Mr. Wead may be someone who tends to back the winners of horse races after they've won one, but he doesn't always pick winners -

The donation by Bentor...errrr..."Benton", referenced in the story.

I didn't find anything else under their names on the FEC's website, and I did search some others, but the website of the AZSOS kept crashing when I attempted to look up individual contributors, plus the campaign finance websites of Maricopa County and the City of Scottsdale do not sort but individual contributions.  If a user knows the candidate receiving a contribution, and approximately when it was made, one can look up the report.  If not, the user is SOL.

Plus, the habit of using aliases makes searching problematical, no matter the campaign finance website in question.