The son of a former Virginia state senator has told federal investigators that U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner discussed the possibility of several jobs, including a federal judgeship, for the senator’s daughter in an effort to dissuade him from quitting the evenly divided state Senate.
Warner was part of a string of high-powered Virginia Democrats who in early June pressed then-state senator Phillip P. Puckett not to go through with plans to give up his seat in the middle of a bitterly partisan battle over health care.
The funny part about this is the Democrats were the ones to request the investigation and they were hoping to catch a Republican State Senator in a bribe. The horsetrading does not seem to be illegal according to Virginia ethic rules, there is a long history of this happening, but the FBI thinks it is illegal under Federal Law. So who knows what is going to happen now.