Federal prosecutors have backed off their assertion that Bob Beauprez’s campaign manager, John Marshall, met with a federal agent at the headquarters of a GOP political organization, The Trailhead Group, according to court papers filed Thursday.
Such a meeting would have raised questions of possible campaign violations. So-called 527 groups such as Trailhead are barred from coordinating with candidate campaigns, and participants in the alleged meeting denied it had taken place.
On Thursday, prosecutors agreed.
“Marshall was not present at the meeting,” wrote special assistant U.S. Attorney James Anderson, noting that the allegation in court papers he filed Monday was a “misstatement.”
Both Marshall and Alan Philp, head of Trailhead, said they had separately met with immigration agent Cory Voorhis. Voorhis has been charged with three federal misdemeanor counts for obtaining information about the identity of an illegal immigrant from the restricted National Crime Information Center database and giving it to Beauprez’s campaign.
