Melanie Eversley

USA TODAY

The FBI on Thursday searched the offices of a Republican political consulting group based in Annapolis, Md., and confiscated computer files and documents tied to direct mail and fundraising practices, the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun reported Thursday.

The Strategic Campaign Group was sued in 2014 on allegations of fraudulent fundraising, according to the Post. The firm also has ties to Scott Mackenzie, treasurer for almost 30 political groups, many of which have been scrutinized for alleged misleading of donors on how funds will be spent, according to the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics.

Kelley Rogers, president of the Strategic Campaign Group, did not respond to a voice mail message left Thursday afternoon, but did tell the Post and the Sun that about six FBI agents showed up at the firm’s door at around 8:30 a.m. ET Thursday with a warrant to collect files and documents.

Rogers told the Sun his firm had done nothing wrong.

Nicole Schwab, a spokeswoman at the FBI’s Washington field office, told USA TODAY: “We were conducting law enforcement activity in the vicinity of Main Street in Annapolis.” Schwab said she could not confirm any details beyond that.

Chip O’Neil, principal strategist at the firm, also did not immediately respond to a voice mail message. The firm did not respond to an e-mail left in its general mailbox on Thursday.

The agents expressed interest in the firm’s work on the 2013 gubernatorial campaign of former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli, Rogers told the Post. Cuccinelli alleged in a 2014 lawsuit that Strategic Campaign Group and the Conservative StrikeForce, the most well-known group of which Mackenzie is treasurer, raised almost $2.2 million for his campaign but funneled little of those funds to him, the Post reported.

“Our suspicion is that this is just a carryover from that,” Rogers told the Post. “I think the facts speak for themselves, and we tried to give the agents all the information they could possibly need.”

Cuccinelli could not be reached early Thursday evening at his law firm in Louisa, Va.

Mackenzie could not be reached at the Conservative StrikeForce Political Action Committee office in Arlington, Va.