This time, it’s a hat trick, State Senator Matt McCoy: he’s Democratic, he’s gay, and he’s in Iowa, where the first of the nation caucuses occur.

According to court documents, the government withheld from the grand jury taped conversations in which McCoy explicitly told Vasquez that he would not suffer retribution if he didn’t share his earnings. The filing also accuses the government of intercepting emails between McCoy and his attorney, as well as surreptitiously paying Vasquez to cooperate in the prosecution (even offering him a bonus if the case returned a guilty plea).

For what it’s worth, he is charged with extorting his business partner, and appears to be rooted in sharing profit on installation of alarm systems.

How the feds got involved in this…..