ATTORNEY GENERAL/DEMS/FBI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Iowa state Sen. Matt McCoy learned Donald Trump had appointed Matthew Whitaker to be acting attorney general of the United States, he was aghast — he believes Whitaker was behind a politically motivated prosecution that was personally ‘devastating’ to him. It started in 2007, when McCoy was a rising Democrat in state politics, and the state’s first openly gay lawmaker. Whitaker was the US attorney for Iowa’s Southern District at the time. A grand jury indictment accused McCoy of using his elected office to try to extort $2,000 from a Des Moines home security company where McCoy was a consultant. The charges came after an elaborate undercover investigation in which the FBI had McCoy’s business partner wear a recording device. McCoy demanded money he says he was owed for his consulting work.”
–Drew Griffin, Collette Richards and Patricia DiCarlo, “Whitaker’s controversial prosecution of a gay Democrat,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, November 9, 2018 11:25 pm