A retired attorney in Virginia is suing the Republican National Committee as well as several GOP leaders, alleging fraud and racketeering because the Republicans have failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

On the heels of a failed vote in the Senate to approve a bill to repeal the ACA, Bob Heghmann has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court seeking to get back political donations made under the belief that Republicans were going to be able to overturn ObamaCare. In his lawsuit, Heghmann argues that the national GOP raised more than $735 million and Virginia’s party more than $20 million from 2009 to 2016 in large part by promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

The GOP “has been engaged in a pattern of Racketeering which involves massive fraud perpetrated on Republican voters and contributors as well as some Independents and Democrats,” the suit said. In addition to the Republican National Committee, the lawsuit names Virginia’s two national GOP committee members, Morton Blackwell and Cynthia Dunbar, as well as the Republican Party of Virginia and state party Chairman John Whitbeck.

According to news reports, Blackwell dismissed Heghmann’s complaint as a “frivolous, nuisance suit that should be thrown out of court by any judge.”

—Source: pilotonline.com