MARK SEIBEL: I found pages and pages of, like, a particular politician's name, like, you know, would be written, you know, like, 20 times on a piece of paper. KAI RYSSDAL: Documents, he says, a friend found in a stolen car. MARK SEIBEL: I found these buckets of documents. One night, while staying at a known drug house near Denver. KAI RYSSDAL: The man with the documents was Mark Seibel, a convicted felon who'd spent most of his life living on the streets. For the half hour that we drove from Denver to Littleton, he told me his story. KAI RYSSDAL: Schwartz agreed to meet the guy, who said the documents were stashed in a safe house that he would take him to.ĪLAN SCHWARTZ: I didn't know where we were going. And a week later-ĪLAN SCHWARTZ: I heard from this individual again, still not identifying himself but telling me that if I wanted to see the documents, then I needed to get them that day. KAI RYSSDAL: The guy said he had some documents. And my wife, who had just been reelected to the Colorado state senate, got an email from someone who claimed to have some information about a group that had sent out some attack ads against my wife. One of the first surprises was finding myself driving the dark streets of Denver with attorney Alan Schwartz, who shared kind of a strange experience.ĪLAN SCHWARTZ: It's early January of 2011. KAI RYSSDAL, APM's Marketplace: I knew right away this wasn't going to be the usual story on campaign finance. TELEVISION COMMERCIAL: American Future Fund is responsible for the content of this advertising. TELEVISION COMMERCIAL: It costs us and taxes us too much. TELEVISION COMMERCIAL: What's at stake is the future of America. TELEVISION COMMERCIAL: -corporations and the richest 2 percent. TELEVISION COMMERCIAL: How can we afford this tax? TELEVISION COMMERCIAL: Stop spending money we don't have. TELEVISION COMMERCIAL: It's time to send a message to Washington.
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