Aug 16, 2007Quickie Link: Gay Iowan Senator Targeted By FBI
By vanrozenheim
(USA) - Iowa’s Gay State Senator Matt McCoy, 41, has been surveyed for 15 moth by the FBI suspecting him of extortion of 2.000 $ from a local business. Two FBI agents arrived on McCoy’s doorstep at 6:30 a.m. in April 2006; this was his first notification that he was under federal scrutiny. The Department of Justice had begun its investigation four months prior by reading e-mails, listening to telephone conversations, scouring bank records, and by questioning friends and colleagues. “I’ve served two terms in the house, and this is my third term in the senate,” McCoy said. “In all my years of elected office, I’ve never seen anything like this.”
