Earlier, I wrote about a Washington Post story detailing some suspicious looking contributions to the McCain campaign bundled by Harry Sargeant III. Shortly after posting, a correction appeared in the original report, as follows:
An earlier version of this story about campaign donations that Florida businessman Harry Sargeant III raised for Sen. John McCain, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton incorrectly identified three individuals as being among the donors Sargeant solicited on behalf of McCain. Those donors — Rite Aid manager Ibrahim Marabeh, and lounge owners Nadia and Shawn Abdalla — wrote checks to Giuliani and Clinton, not McCain. Also, the first name of Faisal Abdullah, a McCain donor, was misspelled in some versions of the story.
This was noted by Amanda Carpenter at Town Hall, so the hat tip goes to her. She also points out that the author of the story was the same individual who earlier wrote a piece on the Arizona land deals involving McCain, substantial portions of which also fell through, so there may be a pattern here. In any event, the rest of the donations will doubtless be investigated, but the most suspicious looking ones apparently never wound up in McCain’s coffers.
My apologies for not catching this correction sooner, but it’s been one of those days today.