Wilson doesn’t plan to return cash from indicted CEO

U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., has no plans to return campaign contributions from a major Republican donor indicted last week on 23 counts of bankruptcy and mail fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice and perjury, according to The Hill.

Alan Fabian, CEO of the Centre for Management and Technology in Baltimore, was indicted for making $32 million in false purchases of computer equipment to pay for his “lavish spending habits,” the article states.

Two GOP presidential candidates – Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani – are returning contributions he made this year. Seven vulnerable House Republicans may be pressured to do the same to avoid criticism from Democrats, The Hill wrote. Wilson is among those seven.

She took $1,000 from Fabian in October and $1,468 in September 2004, The Hill reported. According to a political aide to Wilson quoted in the article, the congresswoman doesn’t plan to return the money “at this time.”

We’ll see whether any of the three Democrats battling for the right to take on Wilson next year make an issue of this.