A high-ranking officially supported member of the AFDNC comitted fraud and your party leaders knew about it but did not tell the public at first. It's impossible to see why that would reflect badly on the party...
That's not true. As far as I know, no one knew about it until he revealed it privately to Alcon, who then told IrishDem that if he didn't go public and admit it, he (Alcon) would do it himself.
Who knew about it but didn't reveal it? Is there more to this that I don't know about? I know that I certainly didn't know it was a false registration until it was made public, and I am confident that no AFDNC member would have tolerated this action.