'P.S.: One of the ring leaders works in your bank!': Is this congressman's fundraising letter a thre
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Source: Washington Post
By Amber Phillips May 15 at 12:11 PM
An attorney in New Jersey, as well as ethics experts back in Washington, are in shock after one of the most powerful members of Congress — Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) — sent a fundraising letter to a woman's employer describing her as a “ring leader” in a local activist group.
Saily Avelenda resigned from her job as a senior vice president at the local bank soon after, saying the letter was part of the reason she left her job. “When it first came to my attention, I thought: ‘No. No one would do that,’” she told The Fix on Monday. “But the more I think about it, the more I could tell this was a concerted, directed effort to target me.”
Here's the operative paragraph in the March letter that Frelinghuysen, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, wrote to the bank's director:
The “local” was starred in blue ink, a flag to jump down to the bottom of the letter, where, next to the congressman's hand-signed signature, there is a handwritten note:
“*P.S.: One of the ring leaders works in your bank!”
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/p-s-an-anti-trump-activist-works-for-your-bank-ethics-experts-say-this-congressmans-fundraising-letter-sounds-like-a-threat/
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