“McAuliffe lawyer: Virginia governor did nothing wrong.”

WaPo:

Federal authorities are investigating whether Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) violated an obscure statute prohibiting U.S. citizens from lobbying the U.S. government on behalf of foreign governments, the governor’s lawyer said.

Attorney James W. Cooper said the Justice Department and the FBI will find no evidence of wrongdoing by McAuliffe, despite probing his personal finances dating back at least a decade before he became governor.

Federal investigators “for whatever reason” became interested in McAuliffe’s foreign sources of income from a period before he entered public office, Cooper told The Washington Post in a phone interview Wednesday. “And that is the predicate for continuing their investigation,” he said.

“All of this income is from the governor’s time as a private citizen and businessman, who did deals that were well publicized around the world. So the fact that he had foreign income was not remarkable,” Cooper said.

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