DOJ calls allegations about 2 Dan Sullivans in Alaska Senate race “troubling,” asks to segregate ballots

Updated on: October 30, 2026 / 8:55 PM EDT / CBS News

Anchorage, Alaska — The Justice Department's top prosecutor in Alaska said new reporting on the origins of an independent candidate's Senate campaign "has resulted in a significant surge of law enforcement assets" to the state, as federal officials in a separate civil case seek to segregate some of Alaska's Senate ballots.

Michael Heyman, the U.S. attorney for the District of Alaska, called the allegations about how Daniel J. Sullivan — a man with the same first and last name as incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan — ended up on the ballot "troubling."

"We are aware of the recent New York Times reporting regarding the Peltola campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, that they orchestrated a sprawling conspiracy to recruit and prop up Daniel J. Sullivan as a sham candidate, and we are taking that extremely seriously," he said in a press conference in Anchorage.

But Heyman declined to detail what specific crimes are being investigated, saying he's "not making any assumptions on whether a crime has been committed or not."

"That's what we do, is we investigate whether a crime has been committed under several theories, so…

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