FBI visits Decoy Dan Sullivan donors as feds ramp up investigation into Alaska Senate candidate

The FBI has begun reaching out to donors of Dan Sullivan asking about potential deception, as federal authorities ramped up their investigation of the US Senate candidate in Alaska who shares a name with the Republican incumbent.Agents have contacted donors in at least two remote communities in Alaska and a couple in Massachusetts.An Anchorage-based FBI agent visited a boat dealership in Petersburg, a small fishing community accessible only by air or water where the candidate lives.The agent left a business card for Charles Flint, who told the Associated Press he has known Dan Sullivan for years as a respected teacher and musician.The FBI visits came after federal officials confirmed the existence of a criminal probe over the candidate.The US Department of Justice also pushed Friday for a court order to isolate certain Alaska ballots to investigate potential voter confusion.Flint contributed $500 over the summer to what he considered a long-shot campaign, saying he knew Dan Sullivan would have expenses and respected him for “throwing his hat in the ring.”Flint said the FBI agent asked his son, who works at the dealership, whether Flint felt he had been “misled” about which candidate he was supporting.“I don’t feel like I’ve been misled at all,” Flint, who has been out of town, told the AP in a telephone interview, adding he had no intention of calling the agent but would “let him waste his time trying to track me down.”“I don’t think there’s any confusion,” he said, adding he intends to rank Democrat Mary Peltola first on his ballot, followed by Dan Sullivan.

“Everybody knows who the incumbent is.”President Trump was asked about the case on Saturday night, during a Halloween party at his Mar-a-Lago estate, and called it “voter fraud at the highest level.”He also suggested that Dan Sullivan had gone into hiding: “Nobody can find him now, so he knows he’s guilty.”The president also suggested, without providing details, that t...