Sussman used to be married to Maine dem rep Pingree and owned the newspaper. Also big donor to that loser Andrew Gillum. Issued a federal grand jury supoena
Grand Jury subpoena issued to Donald Sussman, Maine political donor, Pingree’s former husband, in federal investigation
by Maine Examiner 06/2/2019 | 6:41 0 Posted in Congress, National News
Left: S. Donald Sussman with his wife, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree. Right: Former Mayor of Tallahassee, Andrew Gillum. News broke Thursday that Sussman had been issued a subpoena in a federal investigation that appears to be centered on Gillum.
TALLAHASSEE – The Tampa Bay Times is reporting that S. Donald Sussman, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree’s former husband and the Maine Democratic Party’s largest individual donor over the past decade, is one of at least four people issued a subpoena in a federal investigation focused on Andrew Gillum. Gillum is the former Mayor of Tallahassee who recently ran for Governor of Florida and lost to Republican Ron Desantis.
The Tampa Bay Times says that Sussman gave $1.5 million to Gillum’s political campaign organization, Forward Florida, and that the hedge fund billionaire is one of a group of at least four people targeted by subpoenas with close ties to Gillum.
The paper reports that there has been an ongoing FBI corruption investigation centered in Tallahassee focused on the time that Gillum was Mayor, but that he said during his campaign for Governor he was not under investigation. Now, however, the subpoenas and investigation tightly encircle Gillum, his donors and associates, and his campaign for governor.
Also issued a subpoena was a woman who worked for Sussman in Maine, Harris Parnell. The Tampa Bay Times found a link to her listed as working for Sussman in Maine. A professional listing on Parnell now says she left a job at a Maine non-profit to work as a donor advisor for a philanthropist, presumably Sussman, and relocated to Washington D.C.
Sussman’s ties to Maine are well known among many in Maine politics.
He is a top donor to the Maine Democratic Party and numerous liberal non-profits in Maine, often cutting checks from $20,000 to $150,000 to political action committees and the Maine Democratic State Committee. A quick search of both the Maine Ethics Commission database and the Federal Elections Commission show millions of dollars from Sussman flowing to liberal political causes in Maine and other states