This is how it's supposed to work.
Posted on: October 10, 2019 at 14:30:14 CT
MizzouTigerz
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Gather the evidence, present it, and allow the non-political prosecution to take place.
No allegation that any of the elected official were aware of the misconduct at the time, from what I see in the indictment.
" ... The defendants concealed. the scheme from the candidates, campaigns, federal regulators, and the public by entering into secret agreements, laundering foreign money through bank accounts in the names of limited_liability corporations, and through the use of straw donors (also known as "conduits" or "straw contributors") who purported to make legal campaign contributions in their own names, rather than in the name of the true source of the funds.
... Beginning in or about March 2018 ... Moreover, and to conceal the true source of the contributions and donations funded by Foreign National?l, PARNAS, FRUMAN, CORREIA, and KUKUSHKIN caused the contributions and donations to be made in the defendants? names rather than in the name of Foreign National~l. ... "