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FBI Raids Michigan Candidate's Office
2005-12-01 14:33:07 (249 weeks ago)
Posted By: Intellpuke
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Federal agents raided the Southfield, Michigan, office of Geoffrey Fieger, a prominent lawyer and Michigan attorney general candidate, as part of what Fieger said was an investigation into contributions to the 2004 Democratic presidential campaign.


Fieger, a Democrat who gained fame defending assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, said the investigation was politically motivated by Republicans who control the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit and the attorneys general in Washington and Lansing, the Michigan state capital.


Agents from the FBI and Internal Revenue Service raided Fieger's Southfield office Wednesday night, seizing boxes of financial documents, Fieger said. He was not present.


"It's McCarthyism all over again," he said Thursday.

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