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Project Veritas Calls For Investigation Into Collusion Between Bernie Sanders Campaign And Australian Labor Party

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Christian Datoc Senior White House Correspondent
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James O’Keefe and the Project Veritas Action Fund called on the U.S. Justice Department Thursday to open a formal investigation into possible collusion between Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign and the Australian Labor Party.

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 13: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) listens as Republican members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives deliver opening statements at a Senate-House Conference Committee meeting December 13, 2017 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. The Senate-House Conference Committee met to review and reconcile tax reform legislation passed by both houses of the U.S. Congress. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 13: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) listens as Republican members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives deliver opening statements at a Senate-House Conference Committee meeting December 13, 2017 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. The Senate-House Conference Committee met to review and reconcile tax reform legislation passed by both houses of the U.S. Congress. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

“Since CNN’s Van Jones thinks the Russian collusion story is a ‘nothing burger,’ here’s a JUICY story about a probable violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, a potential conspiracy and foreign collusion in support of a Presidential candidate that Van Jones can really sink his teeth into,” O’Keefe said of the announcement.

Veritas claimed that the 2016 revelations that the ALP used taxpayer dollars to help finance travel for select Sanders campaign staffers in New Hampshire and Nevada, an act which Veritas legal counsel Benjamin Barr says illustrates a “conspiracy to defraud the United States government.”

Barr added that “given the unusual breadth and depth of likely foreign involvement in America’s 2016 presidential election, we request a thorough criminal investigation of the matters.”

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 07: U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives at a news conference at the Capitol March 7, 2018 in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats held a news conference to discuss their one trillion infrastructure plan. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 07: U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives at a news conference at the Capitol March 7, 2018 in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats held a news conference to discuss their one trillion infrastructure plan. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Veritas notes that the “charges” raised against Sanders’ campaign “are similar” to those raised against former Trump campaign staffers in regard to the Russia probe.

The Sanders campaign was fined $14,500 by the Federal Election Commission in February over the “prohibited foreign contributions.”

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