Heather Curtis
WMAL.com
WASHINGTON — (WMAL) Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe now says he probably met with the Chinese businessman whose $120,000 in donations to his 2013 campaign are part of an investigation by the FBI. That’s an about face from Tuesday when McAuliffe said he didn’t think he’d ever met Wang Wenliang.
“I think we probably met one or two occasions. I think, I’m not sure if he came to the inaugural. He may have come to the inaugural,” McAuliffe told reporters Wednesday.
He said Wenliang did come by once with his secretary of agriculture to talk about a deal to buy billions of dollars in Virginia soybeans. McAuliffe said that agreement was made before he took office and denied having done any business with Wenliang himself.
Tuesday McAuliffe said he didn’t even know he was under investigation.
Former US Attorney Matthew Witaker told WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall this probe isn’t something that should be taken lightly.
“The FBI doesn’t do these investigations willy-nilly. They obviously are very careful and have a process, especilaly of high profile governors when they’re investigating them,” said Witaker.
Witaker doesn’t believe this investigation is related to ones about the Clinton Global Initiative or Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton’s use of a private internet server to send classified emails.
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