Hamadeh urges Bondi to investigate alleged misconduct by Democratic attorneys general group

Arizona GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate alleged bribery and prosecutorial misconduct by a Democratic attorneys general organization.

According to Hamadeh's announcement on Friday, former President Trump attorney Christina Bobb found that the Democrat Attorneys General Association appears to have been part of a coordinated effort to influence criminal prosecutions through financial payments to state attorneys general.

Hamadeh said that court records show Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D), who won the 2022 Arizona attorney general race against Hamadeh, received $200,000 from DAGA. The first $50,000 Mayes received after hiring States United Democracy Center in May 2023, and she received the other $150,000 immediately after announcing indictments in April 2024.

"The timing of these payments raises significant concerns about quid pro quo arrangements," Hamadeh wrote in a letter to Bondi on Thursday.

Mayes' office also has "an attorney-client relationship with SUDC, effectively granting politically aligned nonprofit organization control over a criminal prosecution," Hamadeh added. "This arrangement appears to violate fundamental principles of prosecutorial independence and due process."

Also, according to tax filings, "SUDC shares the same address, leadership, and bank accounts with the Progressive State Leadership Committee, which in turn claims to be an 'initiative of' DAGA," the congressman wrote. "This organizational structure appears designed to obscure the flow of money and coordination between a partisan political organization and state law enforcement."

“Many of the individuals involved in this scheme have engaged in highly questionable activity, and as I wrote in my letter to Attorney General Bondi, their rogue and unethical conduct is not isolated to Arizona,” Hamadeh said in a statement.

“As a former prosecutor, it is unimaginable to me that these officers of the court allegedly conspired to deny citizens their fundamental constitutional rights. Yet, it appears that is exactly what happened.”