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Maine Dems hammer Collins over report of pay-to-play probe. GOP senator calls it 'completely false' — Susan M. Collins | ChamberLight
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Maine Democrats and Senate candidate Troy Jackson criticized Susan Collins over a report of an alleged pay-to-play scheme involving a campaign donor. Collins denied the allegations, while the FBI said it had investigated the matter and found nothing implicating her or her campaign.
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People in this story 4 Senator facing allegations about her dealings with a campaign donor and denying that she participated in a pay-to-play scheme.
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President whose return to office was linked in the ProPublica report to the failure of the planned investigation to begin.
Senate majority leader who dismissed the possibility that Collins would be implicated in the scheme.
Democratic Senate candidate and Collins’s election opponent who criticized the allegations.
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Senate majority leader who dismissed the possibility that Collins would be implicated in the scheme.
TJ Democratic Senate candidate and Collins’s election opponent who criticized the allegations.
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