Robin Hayes's Bribery Scandal Poured Gasoline on the NCGOP's Raging Dumpster Fire

As has been widely reported, North Carolina Republican Party chairman Robin Hayes and top GOP donor Greg Lindberg were indicted on charges of bribery and conspiracy to commit honest service wire fraud stemming from an effort to get Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey to remove a regulator Lindberg didn't like.

They and two others were indicted by a federal court Monday and released from custody on a $100,000 bond.

The alleged scheme involved Hayes and Lindberg attempting to bribe Causey with campaign contributions totally $2 million if Causey removed a senior insurance deputy responsible for regulating one of Lindberg's investment companies. Causey reported them to the FBI in January 2018 and cooperated in the investigation. Hayes has also been charged with lying to the FBI.

Hayes, who has chaired the NCGOP on and off since 2011, had announced Monday—before news of the indictments broke Tuesday morning—that he would not seek re-election to the post, though he didn’t say anything about his looming legal troubles. Instead, he said this:

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Aww geez, more corrupt Republicans. What a surprise.