Lobbyist almost killed by man he hired to help him investigate Seth Rich murder: Report
by Mandy Mayfield
March 20, 2018 07:07 PM

Lobbyist Jack Burkman, who began a private investigation into the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich last year, says he was nearly killed after a man who joined the investigation attempted to murder him last week, according to a report.

“It’s a horror story,” Burkman told the Washington Post Monday.

Kevin Doherty, 46, shot Burkman multiple times and ran him over with an SUV, according to the Post.

Conspiracy theories have circled around the death of Rich, who police have said was most likely shot during a random robbery. Doherty worked for Burkman as he sought to profile who they thought could be Rich's true killer.

Tension reportedly developed between the two as Doherty began to think the profiling project was his and began speaking to reporters without Burkman's consent, Burkman told the Post.

Burkman fired Doherty and sent him a cease-and-desist letter in July, according to the news outlet.

“I just figured the matter was closed,” Burkman told the Post. “But what happened is, I guess, he was simmering and simmering and simmering.”

A source who identified as a senior FBI official contacted Burkman and claimed to have internal documents relative to another case he was working on.

The anonymous source planted envelopes of information under a traffic cone in the parking garage at the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn, according to Burkman.

As the lobbyist arrived to retrieve the documents, with his pet Dachshund in hand, he reached under the cone and was shot in the buttocks and thigh and run over by an SUV.

Burkman spent three days in the hospital, and his dog was not harmed.

Doherty was charged with use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and two counts of malicious wounding. He is currently jailed in the Arlington County Detention Facility.


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