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Campaign finance records show that a political action committee tied to Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, an influential Democrat political operative with financial ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, donated $467,500 to Jill McCabe in 2015 to assist her in her race for a Virginia state senate seat. Campaign finance records further reveal that the Virginia Democratic Party, over which Governor McAuliffe exerted considerable control, donated an additional $207,788 of support to McCabe’s campaign in the form of mailers.

This adds up to $675,000 donated by McAuliffe and the Democratic Party in Virginia to McCabe’s wife while he was associate deputy director of the FBI and one of a small group at the head of the FBI during the 2016 presidential campaign responsible for investigating Hillary’s email server. The 2015 Virginia state senate race was Jill McCabe’s first run for office, and her campaign spent $1.8 million in the losing effort.8 On October 23, 2016, McCabe wrote an email to the press indicating the Clinton email server investigation had assumed “special status” and was being moved to the control of a small group of high-ranking people at the FBI headquarters in Washington, which included McCabe.9 On January 29, 2016, FBI Director James Comey appointed McCabe as deputy director of the FBI.

When President Trump fired Director James Comey on May 9, 2017, McCabe, then the deputy director, became the acting director of the FBI. Among the issues DOJ Inspector General Horowitz is investigating is whether McCabe should have recused himself from participating in the FBI’s Russia investigation, given the conflicts of interest created by his wife’s funding from Terry McAuliffe and the Democratic Party in Virginia.10