DOJ calls Alaska Senate allegations "troubling," asks to segregate ballots

Anchorage, Alaska — The Justice Department's top prosecutor in Alaska said new reporting on the origins of an independent candidate's Senate campaign "has resulted in a significant surge of law enforcement assets" to the state, as federal officials in a separate civil case seek to segregate some of Alaska's Senate ballots.Michael Heyman, the U.S. attorney for the District of Alaska, called the allegations about how Daniel J. Sullivan — a man with the same first and last name as incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan — ended up on the ballot "troubling.""We are aware of the recent New York Times reporting regarding the Peltola campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, that they orchestrated a sprawling conspiracy to recruit and prop up Daniel J.

Sullivan as a sham candidate, and we are taking that extremely seriously," he said in a press conference in Anchorage.But Heyman declined to detail what specific crimes are being investigated, saying he's "not making any assumptions on whether a crime has been committed or not.""That's what we do, is we investigate whether a crime has been committed under several theories, so I'm not going to comment on what those theories are, and I'm also not going to put the cart before the horse," he said.Asked by CBS News why the Justice Department is choosing to escalate the