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In his first local TV interview since Monday's FBI raids, Congressman Curt Weldon told CBS 3 he's uncovered new evidence indicating the influence peddling investigation -- is an attempt to sabotage his re-election effort. ...
Weldon said he had evidence of possible political motivation behind the investigation ...
"A retired FBI agent came to me and told me that one of Sestak's workers told him that two weeks ago he knew this was going to happen," said Weldon, adding, "That is absolutely a partisan political activity on the part of the Justice Department if it occurred."
Update: More from the Delaware County Daily Times:
... Speaking to reporters after a House Aviation Subcommittee meeting Wednesday afternoon, [Weldon] said the retired FBI agent, Gregory Auld, confirmed the night before that a Sestak worker "was bragging that three weeks ago they knew this was going to come down."
"That, to me, is absolutely outrageous," Weldon said. "If that occurred, it means that someone in the Justice Department was coordinating whatever was happening with a political campaign."
Except it didn’t happen, according to Auld, who told an entirely different story.
"No, that’s not what happened," he said in a phone interview, when asked about Weldon’s statements.
Auld, a retired FBI agent from Drexel Hill, said a man at a local gym - he refers to him as "Grumpy" because he doesn’t know his name - told him Tuesday that another man in a Sestak shirt said three weeks ago that "something big" would happen to Weldon last weekend. Auld then approached the Sestak supporter, who told him, "We kind of sniffed this out."
"I said, ‘You guys knew about this?’ and he didn’t say anything," Auld said, adding that it was the other man, "Grumpy," who said he had heard from the Sestak worker that "something big was going to come down on Weldon."
"He didn’t say, ‘We knew,’ he just said, ‘We sniffed it out,’" Auld said of his conversation with the latter individual.
Sestak spokesman Ryan Rudominer said, "The idea that our campaign has any influence over the FBI or the Republican-led Justice Department is laughable." He said the campaign had no prior knowledge of the investigation.