Susan Collins and the Case of the Disappearing FBI Probe

When the Trump administration shut down an elite FBI anti-corruption unit, investigations in progress got shelved. ProPublica reporters learned details of one of these: The CEO of a naval technology company alleged that he had bribed politicians, including Sen. Susan Collins. If he was telling the truth, his story provided a road map to how corruption really works in Washington, D.C. But the CEO was in prison for fraud, and Collins claimed she’d been cleared by the FBI. Could anything he said be true?
 
Read the original reporting here: https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation
Contact the reporters here: Molly Redden, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro
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