Minnesota Republican State Rep. Kurt Bills, the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate, is hitting Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar with a new television ad tying her to convicted Ponzi schemer Tom Petters.
The 30-second spot is set to first run during Thursday evening’s Minnesota Vikings game.
“He ran one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history,” a narrator says on the ad before comparing Petters to notorious Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff.
“Amy Klobuchar helped keep him out of prison,” the narrator adds. “As county attorney, she refused to prosecute Petters even though evidence crossed her desk.”
Over video of large stacks of money changing hands, the ad’s narrator then says, “Instead, Klobuchar took his campaign cash.”
The narrator ends by calling for an “end” to Klobuchar’s “dangerous career of cash and cover-up.”
The Daily Caller reported Oct. 19 that documents show Klobuchar helped keep Petters out of prison for years by choosing to prosecute only his early co-conspirators. Petters’ scheme later grew to involve $3.65 billion in assets, and is the third-largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history.
Klobuchar has repeatedly refused to answer questions about the brewing scandal, and won’t sit down for an interview on the topic. She and her campaign have charged that TheDC’s investigation is “inaccurate” and on numerous occasions ave repudiated the allegation without actually denying it.
This television ad is Bills’ first of this campaign, local news outlets report. And, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Bills “is spending about $120,000 to air his spot on Twin Cities stations… during the final two weeks of the campaign, according to public records.”
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