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FEC attorneys urged finding against O'Donnell

Republican members of the Federal Election Commission voted to end a probe of former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, even though staff attorneys concluded there was reason to believe that the Delaware Republican and her campaign violated federal election laws, newly released records show.FEC attorneys recommended in a March report that the commission find reason to believe that election laws had been broken by O'Donnell, her campaign committee and campaign treasurer, as well as the Tea Party Express and its treasurer. The FEC attorneys found grounds that the parties had made, accepted and failed to report excessive in-kind contributions in the form of coordinated expenditures.But agency records released this week show that the commission deadlocked 3-3 along partisan lines last month on whether to accept the recommendations of the FEC's office of general counsel, ending the investigation into a complaint filed by the Delaware Republican Party before O'Donnell captured the pa...

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