The Libertarian Party Medical Freedom Caucus is seeking to hire a private firm to conduct an independent investigation into allegations of fraud and breach of fiduciary duty against the now-former Chair of the Libertarian National Committee.
In a statement on Sunday, the Medical Freedom Caucus, a group within the party that advocates for individual autonomy and free-market solutions in healthcare, announced the creation of an “Investigate McArdle Fund” to finance an outside review of allegations made against former LNC Chair Angela McArdle before her recent resignation.
“The LNC’s disgraced former chair is facing allegations of fraud, embezzlement, and self-dealing,” the statement reads. “The Libertarian Party Medical Freedom Caucus is raising funds for an independent investigation—because accountability matters.”
The caucus did not specify which firm it intends to hire or the expected cost of an investigation; however, the fundraising goal on its website is set at $50,000. It also stated that if the Libertarian National Committee does not permit a third-party investigation, all donations will be refunded.
“The investigation we’re calling for isn’t about loyalty to any faction or individual,” the caucus wrote in an additional post on X. “We are seeking a completely independent review, free from any influence by McArdle or anyone else involved. We just want the truth.”
A special Investigatory Committee was formed this month to examine allegations raised by party members against McArdle. These include an undisclosed connection between McArdle’s domestic partner and Freedom Calls LLC, a voter outreach company contracted by the party during the 2024 election cycle. Additional claims involve the creation of multiple corporations that allegedly enabled self-dealing by McArdle and her partner, as well as allegations of promoting outside candidates in exchange for financial gain and access.
A vote to discharge an initial Investigatory Committee is currently underway and is expected to pass on Monday. If approved, oversight of the investigation would shift to the special committee, which has been described as better suited to handle the matter following McArdle’s resignation.
@Darryl W Perry
“2) what makes you think Chase Oliver is ‘anti-medical freedom’?”
Hmm, let’s see… U+1F914
Calling people who have “small family gatherings” irresponsible. Telling people they should limit their number of Thanksgiving guests. Telling people to wear masks when not eating. Telling people to social distance when they are eating….And that’s just one single tweet.
Then we could look at his insistence that children incapable of informed consent, should be able to have their genitals mutilated and be pumped full of hormones…
And his insistence that people be encouraged and socially pressured rather than overtly forced, into undergoing untested and unsafe gene-therapies which result in them violating the NAP against everyone around them by shedding spike-proteins all over everybody else…
Frankly, we could be here a while. What could possibly make YOU think that Chase Oliver is not a pro-medical fascism? I’m sure that list of reasons is a lot shorter.
Holding an independent investigation would certainly be preferable to having the LNC, JC or their lackeys do it – if it were actually independent, that is.
However, bandying about phrases like “expose the McArdle grift” and “disgraced former chair”, doesn’t exactly give the impression that the medical freedom caucus is really all that interested in “completely independent review”, “the truth” and “accountability”.
“The investigation we’re calling for isn’t about loyalty to any faction or individual.”
Isn’t it? You sure have a funny way of expressing that.
It rather sounds like they have already rather made up their minds to find McArdle guilty of something one way or another, and will now set about looking for anything that might support any allegations whatsoever, or else invent it – just like Jake Porter, the LNC’s investigatory committee and the special investigation committee before them.
So why are they really trying to raise exorbitant funds for this “independent investigation”? Ironically enough, cronyism comes to mind. I wonder who will be hired to conduct this “independent investigation”, how much they will get paid for their “services”, and especially what their relation is to the medical freedom caucus…
@Rick
1) They gave Chase Oliver an A-
They gave Michael Rectenwald an A+
2) what makes you think Chase Oliver is “anti-medical freedom”?
Is this the group that supported anti- medical freedom Chase Oliver?