Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) filed a lawsuit alleging that opposition research outfit Fusion GPS and left-leaning watchdog group Campaign for Accountability (CfA) engaged in a racketeering conspiracy by filing ethics complaints against him that the suit called “fraudulent and retaliatory.”
The federal suit, filed on Sept. 4 in the Eastern District of Virginia, alleges that Fusion GPS and CfA targeted Nunes in order to “intimidate, harass, threaten, influence, interfere with, impede, and ultimately to derail” his congressional investigation, which puts Fusion GPS and its co-founder, Glenn Simpson, at risk of prosecution.
