Mike Rogers campaign for U.S. Senate loses $16,700 in invoice fraud

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers’ joint fundraising committee lost nearly $17,000 earlier this year after unknowingly paying a fraudulent invoice tied to a hacked vendor email, according to a recent Federal Election Commission filing.

As first reported by NOTUS, Rogers’ campaign listed the April 21 loss as a “fraudulent transaction” in its latest campaign finance report.

In a statement to Michigan Advance, campaign spokesperson Alyssa Brouillet said the committee paid the $16,700 invoice after it was “received in the normal course of business” and approved through normal channels. 

“Unfortunately, a week later, Team Rogers was notified that the vendor’s email had been hacked and that the invoice was fraudulent. Despite an immediate request from Team Rogers, the bank was unable to recall the funds due to insufficient funds in the fraudulent account,” Brouillet said.

Rogers, who chaired the powerful House Intelligence Committee during his seven terms in Congress, pitched himself as a cybersecurity expert after he stepped down in 2015. He has also made it a key position in his campaign, with his website noting that Rogers is “passionate about the field of cyber security, working with companies large and small to protect their data from criminals and bad-acting countries like China.”

Rogers is not the first to deal with campaign-related financial thefts. The leadership PAC of U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) reported more than $7,000 in “unauthorized” disbursements in January — which were later recovered — while U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey had $3,000 stolen from his campaign account through a fraudulent credit card charge in December 2025. 

Rogers is running unopposed in the Aug. 4 Republican primary for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat. He will take on the winner of the Democratic primary in November. That contest pits epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed against U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham).