AZ-SD01: AZGOP legislative hopeful Finchem brags about accessing confidential FinCen data
Former Republican lawmaker and candidate for Arizona Senate Mark Finchem has said in multiple interviews that a small-town Tennessee police department that is under criminal investigation gave him access to a confidential federal law enforcement database used for tracking financial transactions to prevent crime.
The GOP candidate, who served in the state House of Representatives from 2015 through 2022, has been making the rounds in the far-right media ecosystem touting an “investigation” being conducted by a nonprofit he runs that is involved in a bizarre, conspiracy-riddled probe into a Tennessee police department.
Earlier this month, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation raided the Millersville Police Department as part of what appears to be a criminal probe into the department’s assistant police chief, Shawn Taylor.
Taylor has said that he is working with Finchem’s non-profit, also includes a number of well known conspiracy theorists who have spread debunked claims, as an investigator. Two local district attorneys confirmed to Tennessee TV station NewsChannel 5 that the TBI had been asked to investigate Taylor’s possible use of sensitive law enforcement data to investigate his potential political enemies.
The investigation also involves the possible perjury of a Millersville detective during testimony he gave in a botched child predator sting, NewsChannel 5 reported.
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