Feds raid Philly IBEW office cleverly disguised as Hillary campaign HQ

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Hot Air:

Ed Morrissey

August 9, 2016

 

We get e-mails from time to time accusing us of missing a major story, and sometimes it’s easy to miss a golden nugget in a busy news cycle, although usually they either turn out to be nothingburgers or misunderstandings. After a couple of e-mails asking us how we could have missed an FBI raid on a Hillary Clinton campaign office, I have to admit that my curiosity was a bit piqued. As it turns out, though, the FBI didn’t raid a Hillary Clinton campaign office last Friday — they raided a union hall that looked like a campaign office. In fact, the Philadelphia IBEW location looked more like a campaign office than a real campaign office would.

 

The story here involves allegations of corruption, but it appears to be more localized and unconnected with the Clintons. Get a load of the truck the feds brought for the haul, though:

 

 

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It’s not as if the IBEW and Dougherty are completely unconnected to Team Hillary. As the Washington Free Beacon noted yesterday, the IBEW endorsed Hillary Clinton two months ago. Dougherty negotiated a labor agreement with the DNC for the national convention about the same time, although that’s not exactly out of the ordinary, given that Democrats always deal with the unions and Dougherty controls the local involved.

 

Potentially somewhat more interesting: Dougherty and Hillary had a tête-a-tête in April.

 

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