said during a phone conversation on Thursday. “I didn’t know that I wasn’t allowed to do it,” Watkins Sr. Watkins’ office, meanwhile, said the freshman lawmaker is not under investigation by the FEC. The elder Watkins - a Topeka-based endocrinologist who also dumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into a super PAC to support his son’s election - insisted he didn’t know that what he was doing was illegal. Those types of donations violate campaign finance laws.
confirmed in a brief interview with POLITICO that the FEC is investigating him for giving thousands of dollars to his daughters, a home-building contractor and the contractor’s wife, which they then used to max out to Watkins’ campaign. At the heart of the FEC probe is whether Watkins’ father made illegal contributions to boost Watkin’s congressional bid.
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