Fortenberry is one of several lawmakers who investigators said received illegal campaign contributions from the Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury..
..”A number of years ago, some very bad people illegally transferred money into my campaign, along with several other members of Congress,” Fortenberry said..
Thanks, wasn’t aware of that.
His issue according to the Omaha World Herald is the FBI told him they were going after the foreign people who made the illegal donations and he agreed to talk to them WITHOUT a lawyer present.