Stephen Russell: The state attorney from Fort Myers was named by Gov. Rick Scott to investigate a $25,000 campaign contribution from Donald Trump's foundation in 2013 to Attorney General Pam Bondi's re-election campaign. Before Bondi asked Trump for the money, the attorney general's office had received numerous complaints from Floridians claiming they had been scammed in Trump's real-estate seminars. Bondi subsequently declined to pursue an investigation — unlike her counterpart in New York, who eventually won a $25 million settlement from Trump. Last week Russell announced there was no evidence of any bribery behind the transaction. But as Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell found, there also was no evidence that Russell's office had done any independent investigation. A case this controversial deserved a thorough probe.