As Paul Demko reports, the Alliance for a Better Minnesota announced it had written to the FBI and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics urging the bodies to investigate allegations that a wealthy Coleman donor, Nasser Kazeminy, fraudulently funneled money to the senator through his wife’s job. Via City Hall Scoop we learn of Sen. Norm Coleman’s response:

“As another Democratic group that spent millions of dollars attempting to defeat me calls for a politically motivated investigation, I want to be clear that I not only welcome such an investigation, but I am eager to have it move forward immediately. The fact that a United States Senator is being used as a tool of extortion by private parties should be of concern to all Minnesotans. I reiterate that none of the allegations which attempt to besmirch my family’s good name and reputation are true. This investigation should move forward, and it is my hope that those who were behind this matter, their motives and what their connections may be to my political opponents be reviewed aggressively by the appropriate authorities and the media. This matter, which has emerged again as a result of the tactics of my political opponents, during a recount, ought to raise even further suspicions in the minds of Minnesotans as to its motives and purposes.”