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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHAHAHAHAHA! Colorado to Investigate Lauren Boebert for Alleged Misuse of Campaign Funds
Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has come under investigation from several state agencies over her alleged misuse of campaign funds, the New York Times reported today.
Boebert allegedly used campaign funds to reimburse herself for $22,259 in mileagea sum strikingly similar to the $20,000 she paid in tax liens for her previous failure to pay unemployment premiums on her restaurant, Shooters Grill. The allegations were brought to the Colorado attorney generals office by the American Muckrakers PAC, which recently tanked Madison Cawthorns congressional run.
https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/06/colorado-lauren-boebert-campaign-funds-investigation/
2naSalit
(86,817 posts)Whisking her swiftly out of the political world.
Get her!
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,807 posts)Just like her idol TDFG.
Who cares about laws? This from someone who did not graduate from High School?
At least Elle Woods got into Harvard Law and graduated Top of her class.
Jerry2144
(2,115 posts)If she even graduated kindergarten. Shes very sharp, like a bowling ball is sharp.
AZ8theist
(5,507 posts)onetexan
(13,065 posts)whether that be fame or infamy no difference to them, and suck as much $ from the public to support their insanity so they can line their pockets.
bucolic_frolic
(43,332 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,094 posts)The words honest and Republican are becoming an oxymoron.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)A very, very long time.
brooklynite
(94,748 posts)The campaign funds were for Federal office; that puts them under the jurisdiction of the FEC.
hlthe2b
(102,389 posts)Every state prosecutes FRAUD. That said, this is an investigation to SEE if any state laws HAVE been violated, so your criticism is putting cart before the horse.
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/06/08/lauren-boebert-investigation-mileage-colorado/
brooklynite
(94,748 posts)hlthe2b
(102,389 posts)Especially given the gross income (falsely) reported then comes into play.
Ray Bruns
(4,115 posts)NHvet
(240 posts)Utilizing an illegal source of funds or ill-gotten funds to pay off a tax lien is illegal in Colorado as well as other states and also on the federal level. Couldn't be happening to a more deserving person in my opinion.
ZonkerHarris
(24,259 posts)kozar
(2,135 posts)Mileage reports for campaigning in Co. The mileage she turned in was more than the circumference of our lovely Earth. Hmmmm
Koz
keithbvadu2
(36,938 posts)Tanuki
(14,922 posts)..."At the core of the inquiry are eight tax liens from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment totaling $20,000 and filed against Ms. Boebert from August 2016 to February 2020 for failure to pay unemployment premiums on her business, Shooters Grill.
In late 2020, Ms. Boebert reimbursed herself for mileage from the 2020 campaign and paid off the liens.
As you are both fully aware, utilizing an illegal source of funds or ill-gotten funds to pay off a tax lien is illegal in Colorado and under federal law, the Muckrakers complaint to the attorney general stated, adding, That is the very definition of ill-gotten funds.
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hlthe2b
(102,389 posts)I presume the NYT did...
FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)at the constant criticism coming from certain supposedly Democratic liberals when republicon crime is rightfully investigated.
OnlinePoker
(5,727 posts)Looking at her opponent's record in the Colorado Senate, though, Don Coram, he seems a little too centrist for the average Trumpian.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)She considers herself to be one of Trumps faithful, loyal soldiers who would have been instrumental in a successful coup. Tearing down the established order is exciting to her, no matter what replaces it. Shes dangerous.
And again, should we continue to speculate on the identity of the person who planted the pipe bombs on 1/5/21?
librechik
(30,676 posts)However there is no more bereft and bedeviled place in all of Colorado. Cannot live there. Cannot imagine what kind of fossilized reptiles could make a go of it. And I have lived in the most obscure and difficult places in our great state. The thought of her defiling our democracy is galling.
Cheap rent, though. It's tempting.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)Blue Owl
(50,522 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Nice wrist jewelry awaits, soonish!?!