'Whistleblower' accused of seeking illegal donations

Washington Examiner:
The whistleblower who spurred impeachment proceedings against President Trump is now the subject of a complaint that says the official may be soliciting illegal donations.

The complaint, which was filed last week by an intelligence officer, was sent to the Intelligence Community inspector general and focuses on a GoFundMe page for the whistleblower that has raised more than $227,000.

According to a letter sent by the law firm Tully Rinckey PLLC, their client alleges donations from roughly 6,000 individuals "clearly constitute" gifts to a current intelligence official, which are restricted by statute. Because many of the donors are anonymous, the complaint asks Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson to investigate whether any "foreign citizen or agent of a foreign government" gave money. The complaint also said the whistleblower's lawyers may be abusing their client's access to classified information.

"My client believes ... that the federal employee you are protecting and their attorneys apparently have strategically weaponized their alleged whistleblowing activities into a very lucrative money-making enterprise using a charity incorporated under a different name than the trade name it is using for fund-raising purposes, which would appear to my client to be a clear abuse of the federal employee's authority and access to classified information," Anthony Gallo, the managing partner of Tully Rinckey, said in the letter sent on Nov. 8.
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A new whistleblower blows the whistle on the anti-Trump 'whistleblower.'  It is interesting that this not a lead headline at the NY Times and Washington Post.  Those papers are too deep in the tank for impeachment/coup attempt to consider the ethics complaint against their hero who they refuse to name not so much to protect him from assault as to protect the Democrat impeachment effort from the revealed bias of the guy and the Schiff impeachment effort.

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