Funny thing about being named to a cabinet post on your own terms - it tends to make folks take a closer look at you and your past. Mark Nickolas did some yeoman's work with FEC reports and came up with a real doozy. Move over, CrabGate:
Specifically, did Gregg deliberately conceal nearly a dozen contributors to his leadership PAC -- White Mountain PAC -- at the very time he served as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security after it awarded many millions of dollars in TSA contracts for airport security equipment to those same donors?
...During June and July 2005, as Gregg's subcommittee was dealing specifically with how to allocate the billions in homeland security funding for projects -- like the ones Reveal was seeking -- Gregg began meeting with and taking contributions from the company's top officers and lobbyists for his leadership PAC, just as Rogers had been rounded criticized for at the time.
...But Gregg's involvement with Reveal's officers and lobbyists appear much more unseemly than even Rogers as Gregg's PAC failed to identify -- as required by law -- the occupation and employer of any of these Reveal officers, except one, in his campaign finance reports to the FEC. Campaign finance laws require such information be reported for all contributions over $200.
Unless you knew who these contributors were, by name, you would have had to do your own research to find out where they were employed and their relationship to Gregg or his work. Even more egregious was the fact that Gregg amended this campaign finance report but did not include any additional information in the revised report.
But read the whole thing. "Rogers" refers to Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), who, called one of the most corrupt members of Congress, was raked over the coals by a WaPo article at the time.
