campaign for most of the last year, they have had a little best a shadow following them around. it s a scandal that started in the ron paul for president campaign in 2012. allegations that the ron paul campaign paid a bribe, that they bribed an iowa state senator in order to get that senator s endorsement. federal prosecutors say the rand paul for president campaign made more than $70,000 in secret bribery payments to this iowa state senator and then they conspired with him to cover it up. that scandal has already led to that iowa senator pleading guilty in federal court. earlier this summer it led to federal indictments of three paul family staffers, two of whom have been work recently to get rand paul elected president this time around. all three of them have pled not guilty. but this scandal from his dad s campaign, it s already led rand paul to lose two of his top aides at a time when he really can t afford to be losing
government. here is mike huckabee at the event i mentioned. take a listen. the decision for your children s education is not in the hands of the government. it is in the hands of the mothers and fathers who are not only responsible for bringing the children into the world, but who are responsible for training their replacements. who is in your view doing best among this group right now in this race? there s no way to really tell. there s no polls of home schoolers. i haven t seen prominent endorsements from that group yet. they have a number of choices. first of all, mike huckabee, they still like him. rick santorum, he still has home schooled kids. they still like him. ted cruz i think has done well with this group. some of them have been interested in the ron paul campaign in the past and may come over to rand paul, the libertarian, government leave me alone. stay with me, kathie.
case. police officials have been in touch but that da meetry kes ari has not been charged with anything. but that laptop with political work linked to the ron paul campaign was stolen, that burglary investigation could at least in part explain why police raided kesari s home with such a show of force. we asked the fbi whether that burglary case in rhode island led to this response that you see on this video. they would not say directly, but they told us, quote, the fbi assesses each individual independently when determining thousand effect an arrest. the scandal for ron paul for president campaign in 2012, the scandal involving an alleged bribe to an iowa senator, this has already led to the
man who worked on the ron paul for president campaign. this young man apparently roomed with da meetry casaury. that was the campaign where casaury and other associates were allegedly bribing that state senator. that young man. after the campaign was over, he passed away suddenly. he died in july 2013 at the age of 26. it was just an outpouring of support and grief for his family when he died. and on the one-year anniversary of his death, his parents were given an anonymous gift for them to essentially get away, a trip to ken bunk port, maine. and when they were gone that some anonymous donor gave them, their home was broken into. and the thing that was taken was a laptop, which is a laptop their son had used to do political work when he was working for the ron paul campaign. this is an unsolved mystery. there is no indication about who
this young man reportedly roomed with dimitri in iowa during that campaign. that was the campaign where did imytory and other paul family associates were allegedly bribing that local state senator. that young man after that campaign was over, it s a sad story, he passed away suddenly. he died in july 2013 at the age of 26. just an outpouring of grief and support for his family when he died. and on the one-year anniversary of his death, his parents were given an anonymous gift for them to essentially get away for a weekend. they were given a trip to ken he bunk port maine. while they were gone for that trip that some anonymous donor so generously paid for them to go on, their home was broken into. their home in rhode island was broken into and the thing that was taken was a laptop which is a laptop their son used to do political work when he was working for the ron paul campaign. this is an unsolved mystery. there is no indication about who broke into that house.