Susan Collins wrote legislation while on a key Senate committee that appears to have helped her husband Thomas Daffron's lobbying firm Jefferson Consulting earn tens of millions in federal contracts from 2006-2016, by @SollenbergerRC HT @summer7570

salon.com/2020/10/12/sus…
Related prior article by @SollenbergerRC

Exclusive: Susan Collins' plight gets worse with new corruption allegation, possible ethics probe - Ethics watchdog accuses Maine senator of "blatant corruption" after GOP tax bill sweetened husband's investments

salon.com/2020/09/09/exc…
Story by @Robillard cited by @SollenbergerRC

Dems Take Aim At Susan Collins’ Lobbyist Husband As Maine Race Heats Up - The senator backed policies that benefited her husband’s consulting business. Republicans target Sara Gideon’s husband in attack ads too
huffpost.com/entry/democrat…
In 2013 the year after Susan Collins left the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, her husband Thomas Daffron's firm Jefferson Consulting won a $49 million contract with the US Agency for International Development (USAID)
salon.com/2020/10/12/sus…

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