至少三名向丹尼尔·J·沙利文捐款的人——这位阿拉斯加参议院候选人与共和党现任参议员同名，其候选人资格正处于一场涉嫌“搅局”选票计划的争议中心——在过去三天里，在位于阿拉斯加偏远地区的家中接待了联邦调查局特工的上门拜访。
At least three donors to Daniel J. Sullivan — the Alaska Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent and whose candidacy is at the center of controversy over an alleged ballot-spoiling scheme — received visits from FBI agents at their remote Alaska homes in the last three days.
这些拜访表明，针对这场有争议的候选人资格的联邦调查正在扩大，加剧了部分阿拉斯加人的担忧，即如果民主党挑战者玛丽·佩尔托拉击败参议员丹尼尔·S·沙利文，特朗普政府可能会质疑选举结果。参议员本人周日表示，即使他落选，也会接受选举结果。
The visits suggest a widening federal investigation into the controversial candidacy, fueling fears among some Alaskans that the Trump administration is poised to question the election results in the event Democratic challenger Mary Peltola defeats Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan. The senator himself said Sunday that he would accept the election results, even if he loses.
彼得斯堡居民保罗·约翰森告诉“MS NOW”，周六上午，两名联邦调查局工作人员到访了他的家。他说，特工告诉他，他们是来“调查一起欺诈案”的，并询问他是否确实打算向丹尼尔·J·沙利文捐款，而不是给那位参议员。
Paul Johnsen, a resident of Petersburg, told MS NOW that he was visited by two employees of the FBI at his home on Saturday morning. He said the agents told him they were there to “investigate a fraud” and asked him whether he had, in fact, intended to donate to Daniel J. Sullivan, as opposed to the senator.
约翰森说，他告诉特工，他确实打算捐款给他口中的“彼得斯堡丹”，而不是那位因非阿拉斯加出生而获得“俄亥俄丹”绰号的参议员沙利文。
Johnsen said he told the agents he did intend to donate to the man he calls “Petersburg Dan” as opposed to Sen. Sullivan, who has earned the nickname “Ohio Dan” because he is not Alaska-born.
约翰森私下认识丹尼尔·J·沙利文，这位退休教师也住在彼得斯堡，这是阿拉斯加东南部一个小而孤立的沿海社区。约翰森曾与沙利文的妻子一起在当地一座灯塔的董事会任职。
Johnsen personally knows Daniel J. Sullivan, a retired teacher who also lives in Petersburg, a small and isolated coastal community in southeastern Alaska. He served on the board of a local lighthouse with Sullivan’s wife.
约翰森确认他清楚钱捐给谁后不久，他说特工就结束了谈话，对话持续了大约三分钟。除提到正在调查一起欺诈案外，特工没有提及任何关于约翰森或任何其他人涉嫌不法行为的指控。
Shortly after Johnsen affirmed that he knew where his money was going, he said the agents ended the conversation, which lasted roughly three minutes. The agents made no mention of any allegation of wrongdoing by Johnsen or any other person, other than their reference to investigating a fraud.
联邦调查局未立即回应“MS NOW”关于其特工拜访阿拉斯加居民的置评请求。
The FBI did not immediately respond to MS NOW’s request for comment on its agents paying visits to Alaska residents.
阿拉斯加州议会无党派州众议员丽贝卡·欣斯库特（Rebecca Himschoot）对 MS NOW 表示，她的一位不同选民报告称，因向丹尼尔·J·沙利文（Daniel J. Sullivan）的竞选活动捐款，曾接到两名联邦调查局（FBI）特工的上门拜访。欣斯库特代表彼得斯堡及周边地区。
Rebecca Himschoot, an Independent state representative in the Alaska State Legislature who represents Petersburg and the surrounding region, told MS NOW that a different constituent reported being visited by two FBI agents in connection with their donation to Daniel J. Sullivan’s campaign.
欣斯库特说，这位居住在锡特卡（Sitka）的选民——该地是另一个距彼得斯堡约 91 英里（约 146 公里）的偏远沿海社区——报告了类似的经历：两名 FBI 特工询问他们是否知道捐款给的是“哪个丹·沙利文”。当该选民回答称，他们知道自己捐款给的是丹尼尔·J·沙利文时，特工结束谈话并离开。
The constituent — who lives in Sitka, another remote coastal community about 91 miles from Petersburg — reported a similar interaction, with two FBI agents asking if they knew “which Dan Sullivan” they had donated money to, Himschoot said. When the constituent responded that they were aware they had donated to Daniel J. Sullivan, the agents ended the conversation and left.
欣斯库特说，这位选民“感到惊恐和担忧”。MS NOW 未直接与该选民交谈，但查看了该选民拍摄并分享给欣斯库特的两名 FBI 特工证件照片。
The constituent, Himschoot said, “found it alarming and concerning.”MS NOW did not speak to the constituent directly, but did review photographs of the FBI special agents’ identification badges taken by the constituent and shared with Himschoot.
彼得斯堡和锡特卡均位于阿拉斯加东南部沿海地带，该地区小社区之间无公路相连，居民通常乘船或飞机出行。欣斯库特表示，她觉得值得注意的是，FBI 似乎投入资源派遣两名特工前往如此偏远的地方，仅为进行这种简短且在她看来似乎毫无意义的询问。
Petersburg and Sitka are part of Alaska’s coastal Southeast, where small communities are not connected by roads and residents typically travel by boat or plane. Himschoot said she found it remarkable that the FBI appears to have devoted the resources necessary to send two agents to such a remote place for such brief and, in her view, seemingly pointless interviews.
“我希望有人能告诉我他们在调查什么，”欣斯库特说，“没有人拿出联邦法典或州法律来表明涉嫌违反了哪条规定。这些特工本可以去侦办人口贩运案件。”
“I would like someone to tell me what they’re investigating,” Himschoot said. “No one has produced a federal code or state law that was allegedly violated. Those agents could be solving human trafficking cases.”The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the Peltola campaign, along with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, actively worked to recruit Alaskans named Daniel Sullivan to enter the race in order to confuse voters and draw votes away from the incumbent senator. Peltola and her campaign have denied involvement in or knowledge of the scheme.
《纽约时报》周三报道称，佩尔托拉（Peltola）竞选团队连同民主党参议院竞选委员会（Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee），曾积极招募名为丹尼尔·沙利文的阿拉斯加人参选，以混淆选民视线、分流现任参议员的选票。佩尔托拉及其竞选团队否认参与或知晓该计划。选举法专家表示，此类“搅局”策略虽卑鄙，但并不违法。
Election law experts say that such ballot-spoiling strategies, while underhanded, are not illegal.
尽管如此，特朗普指控佩尔托拉涉嫌选举舞弊，并呼吁对其提起诉讼、将其从选票中除名。他的司法部已提起诉讼，寻求在参议员沙利文以微弱劣势落败时，阻止选举结果获得认证；阿拉斯加州共和党州长邓利维也启动了单独的州级调查，并暗示可能扣留正式确认佩尔托拉胜选的文书工作。（认证选举结果是阿拉斯加州选举局局长的职责，该局隶属于副州长办公室。）
Nevertheless, Trump has accused Peltola of election fraud and called for her prosecution and removal from the ballot. His Justice Department has filed a lawsuit seeking to block certification of the election results if Sen. Sullivan loses narrowly, and Alaska’s Republican governor, Mike Dunleavy, has launched a separate state investigation and suggested he might withhold the paperwork formally recognizing a Peltola victory. (Certifying the election results is the job of the director of Alaska Division of Elections, a component of the office of the lieutenant governor.)
周五，阿拉斯加联邦司法区联邦检察官迈克尔·海曼也召开新闻发布会，表示联邦调查局（FBI）和司法部正在“就一项刑事调查采取调查步骤”。据美国广播公司新闻报道，司法部已发出数十份大陪审团传票，作为对阿拉斯加州参议院竞选及丹尼尔·J·沙利文如何成为候选人展开刑事调查的一部分。
On Friday, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska, Michael Heyman, also held a press conference where he said the FBI and DOJ were “taking investigative steps with respect to a criminal investigation.”According to ABC News, the Justice Department has issued dozens of grand jury subpoenas as part of a criminal investigation into Alaska’s Senate race and how Daniel J. Sullivan became a candidate.
丹尼尔·J·沙利文竞选活动的许多捐款人来自同一个人口稀少的东南部地区，并与候选人私交甚笃。
Many of the donors to Daniel J. Sullivan’s campaign are from the same sparsely populated southeastern region and know the candidate personally.
朱诺居民、商业渔民迈克·皮利告诉“MS NOW”，三十多年前，他在国家森林局工作时结识了沙利文。皮利证实他是知情捐款给丹尼尔·J·沙利文竞选活动的，当被问及最近是否与候选人有过联系时，皮利说对方“给我们写了一张漂亮的感谢信”。截至周六中午，皮利表示尚未接到联邦调查局的上门拜访。
Juneau resident Mike Pilley, a commercial fisherman, told MS NOW that he met Sullivan more than three decades ago when both were employees of the National Forest Service. Pilley confirmed he knowingly donated to Daniel J. Sullivan’s campaign, and asked if he had been in touch with the candidate recently, Pilley said he “wrote us a nice thank-you note.”As of midday Saturday, Pilley said had not received a visit from the FBI.
不过，到了傍晚，他联系了MS NOW，称自己也收到了FBI的探访。皮利说，特工们待了“大约15分钟”，没有给他留下任何东西，但“他们说，他们从我们所有捐款人那里都听到了同样的说法”。
By late afternoon, however, he contacted MS NOW to report that he too had received a visit from the FBI. Pilley said the agents stayed for “maybe 15 minutes” and did not leave him with anything, but “they did say they have heard the same story from all of us donors.”
皮利说，特工们是“相当不错的小伙子”，但他坚称，“我们所有人都清楚自己在捐给谁。”州立法者辛斯库特认识丹尼尔·J·沙利文大约二十年，她说，当他宣布参选时，她并不感到意外，因为他长期反对这位参议员的政策，甚至开玩笑说要竞选他的席位。辛斯库特认为，无论他是否与任何竞选活动或政治操盘手有过接触，参选的决定都是他自己的。
Pilley said the agents were “nice enough guys” but maintained, “All of us knew exactly who we were giving to.”Himschoot, the state legislator, who has known Daniel J. Sullivan for about two decades, said she was not surprised when he announced his candidacy, because he had long opposed the senator’s policies and had even joked about running for his seat. Himschoot believes that, regardless of whether he was in contact with any campaigns or political operatives, the choice to run was his own.
“暗示丹·J·沙利文不是一个能够自主做决定的成年人，这有点侮辱人，”她说。“阿拉斯加人并不笨。”FBI的探访，加上参议院选举受到的大量全国关注和资金涌入，让阿拉斯加人对全国政治深感警惕。
“To insinuate that Dan J. Sullivan is not a fully formed adult making his own decisions is a little bit insulting,” she said. “Alaskans are not dumb.”The FBI visits, alongside the large amounts of national attention and money being heaped on the senate race, have made Alaskans deeply wary of national politics.
“我甚至无法向你描述阿拉斯加人对此感到的疲惫，”她说。“我们现在对这一切都非常反感。”
“I can’t even begin to explain to you the exhaustion Alaskans are feeling about this,” she said. “We’re very sour right now, on all of it.”