A Republican donor is fed up with RINOs who paid lip service to repealing imploding Obamacare for 7 years but failed to do so when they had the chance.

Bob Heghmann, a retired attorney from Virginia, filed a federal lawsuit against GOP leaders accusing them of fraud and racketeering.

Heghmann, 70, wants his political donations back, saying weak-willed Republicans raised millions of dollars in campaign funds over the years by promising to repeal Obamacare.

By failing to do so last week, Heghmann said some GOP lawmakers are hucksters involved in “fraud” and organized crime to make money off phony-baloney promises.

“[The GOP] has been engaged in a pattern of Racketeering, which involves massive fraud perpetrated on Republican voters and contributors,” the lawsuit claimed, as reported by the Virginian-Pilot.

The lawsuit names as defendants the Republican National Committee, two members of Virginia’s national GOP committees, Morton Blackwell and Cynthia Dunbar, the Republican Party of Virginia, and state party chairman John Whitbeck.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed fraud charges against current Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The charges are related to an investment in a Texas tech startup that Paxton helped promote before being elected in November 2014.

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Thousands of Arizona residents encountered major problems while attempting to vote in the state’s March 22 primary.

The number of polling locations in one county decreased to 60 from 200, causing significantly longer lines. One woman wrote to the Bernie Sanders campaign claiming that she waited in line for nearly 5 hours.

Thousands of other residents arrived at polling sites to find that they had been misidentified as Republicans or Independents, and were instead given provisional ballots.

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Chaka Fattah Jr., the son of Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA), was sentenced today to five years in prison for fraud and tax charges. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Harvey Bartle III ordered Fattah Jr. to pay $1,172,157 in restitution.

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A few weeks ago, the California education department did a peculiar thing: It scrubbed historical data about standardized-test scores from its public DataQuest website. This being a government agency, it immediately began to lie to the public about why it had done this.

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SANTA FE, N.M.—New Mexico’s Democratic attorney general charged Republican Secretary of State Dianna Duran with embezzlement, fraud, money laundering and campaign finance violations, further widening a rift between the two over enforcement of the state’s laws governing campaigns.

Attorney General Hector Balderas’ office filed the 64-count complaint late Friday in state district court in Santa Fe. Mr. Balderas didn’t make a statement or hold a news conference to announce the complaint against Ms. Duran, one of the highest-ranking Republicans in the state.

Mr. Balderas spokesman James Hallinan said the office wouldn’t be releasing any information beyond the court filing. “Our office will proceed transparently by way of preliminary hearing,” he said.

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