According to a December Federal Election Commission filing, a “cyber-criminal” stole nearly $700,000 from Kansas Republican Senator Jerry Moran’s campaign.
The FEC filing says that the senator’s campaign was victimized by a “third-party cyber-criminal,” who allegedly used fraudulent invoices to receive two wire transfers. Both wire transfers were for $345,000, totaling $690,000. The first wire was sent on October 25th, while the second was sent on November 9th.
Campaign officials said in the FEC filing that a little over $168,000 was recovered.
Moran’s campaign reported the incident to the Republic County Sheriff’s Office on November 16th of last year. The case was then transferred to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the FBI.
