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Of special counsel, independent federal and prosecutorial agency which is not related to the team led by robert mueller said they received two complaints. at issue are campaign contributions, whitaker ran for sinton 2014. according to filings, whitaker for u.s. senate received contributions in january and february of this year. at the time he worked as chief of staff to attorney general jeff sessions. the department of justice declined to comment but sources close to whitaker appointed fox news to a 2001 advisory opinion that said an agent on the campaign organization of a candidate who later ...

One from senator sheldon white house, a democrat from rhode island and another from a watch dog group called american oversight. at issue, campaign contributions. whitaker ran for senatener iowa in 2014. according to the filings, the campaign received four contributions in january and february of this year. the department of justice declined to comment. a source close to whitaker pointed fox news to a advisory opinion from osc. it said that federal employees can participate in a fund-raising effort or if fund-raising efforts to get rid of campaign debt before they became a federal employee. th...

>> leland: president trump's acting attorney general facing more controversy, a liberal watchdog group filing complaints about matt whitaker, following this story from washington. hi, allison. >> that group says the office of special counsel opened a case filed to look at acting attorney general matthew whitaker and potential violations of the hatch act. fox news reached out but did not immediately hear back. the hatch act, as many people already know, puts limits on the sort of political activities federal workers can engaged in. whitaker ran for senate in 2014, his campaign committee is repo...

Requested an investigation into the contribution. >> after two years of being completely dormant and only after he joined jeff sessions office as chief of staff, he started receiving a cluster of contributions from former clients of his when he was a lobbyist in iowa. it appears to violate the black letter law of the hatch act. >> american oversight says they've asked at least three different federal offices to look into whitaker. his appointment is controversial, democrats and even some republicans take issue with previous statements he made criticizing the special counsel's russia probe. dem...

>> reporter: in 2013, whitaker ran in the republican primary for u.s. senate but came in fourth and one year later, he was named chairman of sam's unsuccessful bid for iowa state treasurer. clovis was a top trump campaign aide and has reportedly testified before mueller's grand jury. whitaker will be assuming oversight of the russia probe, taking over that duty from rod rosenstein, but kate, democrats like nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, they've called for whitaker to recuse himself, but remember, it was jeff sessions' recusal from overseeing that probe that sparked president trump's fury and ...