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Former Rep. T.J. Cox (D-CA), who was part of the 2018 “blue wave” election that brought Democrats and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) back to power, was indicted Tuesday on 28 federal counts, including fraud and campaign contribution fraud. Among the charges is one that Cox fraudulently claimed to have purchased a property as his primary residence. Cox faced allegations during the 2018 campaign that his real “principal residence” was in Maryland and that he did not actually live in California. It is unclear whether the indictment concerns Cox’s attempt to prove that he lived in California in that race.

When aides to Rahm Emanuel recently wheeled a cart loaded with tall stacks of his nominating petitions into the city election board’s downtown offices, the more than 90,000 voter signatures were a show of force meant to prove deep grass-roots support across the city for the former White House chief of staff. In reality, his petition drive had received even greater support from many campaign workers who live far beyond the city limits, according to documents filed last week with elections authorities. The Chicago News Cooperative’s review of all of the nearly 5,300 petitions for the Emanuel campaign found that...