GOP Candidate for Congress Received Donation From Dead Man

Published August 27, 2013 11:14am ET



A Republican candidate for Congress in Georgia has received around a quarter of his donations from out of state–and at least one of those is from the grave.

Bob Barr, a former congressman who served from 1995 to 2003 and a former presidential candidate on the Libertarian party ticket in 2008, is running for the House of Representatives again in 2014, attempting to succeed Senate hopeful Phil Gingrey. In the second quarter of 2013, Barr’s campaign raised more than $250,000 from donors in Georgia and elsewhere. One small, $150 donation came from Malvern Gross Jr. of Hightstown, New Jersey. The problem is that Gross, once a generous donor to Republican and conservative causes, appears to have died in 2010.

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