“I have told [first name of Clerk A] and [first name of Clerk A’s Chief of Staff] that we would be sending a donation of 10,000 dollars,” Donagher wrote in a September 2011 email, according to the indictment. Later, in reference to a request for contributions for a birthday celebration for Brown in 2013, Donagher allegedly sent an email to two of his employees and two of the company’s Illinois lobbyists: “Handle this appropriately. I told her we would do 2500.” Two days after that email, Donagher mailed five $500 checks to Brown’s campaign, prosecutors say.