A Tennessee Democrat legislator is facing a federal probe over a political action committee that appears to have been little more than a shell operation wrapped in the rhetoric of grassroots activism.
According to Gateway Pundit, Tennessee State Rep. Torrey Harris (DMemphis) is under FBI scrutiny over allegations tied to WIN TENNESSEE PAC, a committee he served as treasurer for and heavily promoted on his own Facebook page during Kamala Harriss faltering 2024 presidential campaign. The PACs now-defunct website pledged that donor funds would support travel to battleground states such as North Carolina and Georgia, statewide advertising, and weekly organizing calls, and even boasted of physical offices in Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville.
None of those promises materialized. The site instead relied on a bogus phone number, (123) 456-7890, listed field offices that did not exist, and routed contributions first to a P.O. Box and later to a UPS Store address in Nashville.
A small-print disclaimer conceded that the PAC was not formally connected to Kamala Harriss campaign, yet Harris still leveraged her name to solicit contributions from unsuspecting supporters. According to a bombshell report from the Nashville Banner citing multiple sources inside Tennessee Democrat politics, the FBI began asking questions about the PAC early in 2026, and the inquiry has reportedly widened to include Harriss opaque personal business dealings.
Regulators had already flagged the operation for basic compliance failures. The PAC failed to submit mandatory Federal Election Commission reports on time, drawing three delinquency notices between October 2024 and January 2025, and Harris did not file the overdue reports until late March 2026, after the federal probe was reportedly underway.
Those filings paint a picture of a PAC that functioned more like a social slush fund than a serious political vehicle. The Nashville Banner reports that the committee raised only $1,850 and logged just three expenditures: $204 to a fried fish restaurant in Memphis for hosting the debate watch party, $472 to a liquor store for party supplies on the same date, and a $574 reimbursement to Rep. Harris, reportedly for web services related to the PAC.
There is no expenditure or in-kind contribution listed for the debate watch party venue, raising further questions about where donor money actually went. Multiple sources also suggested Rep. Harris was being investigated related to personal business ventures, though details of that business or related investigation were not immediately verifiable.
Federal authorities, for their part, are keeping their distance in public. According to a spokesperson, the FBI does not confirm the existence or nonexistence of any criminal investigation, other than exceptional cases where public input may benefit the investigation, and the bureau has declined to comment on Harris, underscoring yet again how often Democrat fundraising operations operate in the shadows while demanding ever more control over taxpayers money.
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