Lauren Boebert paid rent and utilities with campaign funds, FEC filings show

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Source: Denver Post


Republican congresswoman later reimbursed her campaign for $6,650


UPDATED: September 22, 2021 at 5:48 p.m.


Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert paid rent and utility bills with campaign funds in violation of federal campaign finance laws, new filings with the Federal Election Commision show.

The filings, submitted to the FEC on Tuesday, also indicate that Boebert reimbursed her campaign for the $6,650 worth of payments. Representatives for the congresswoman could not immediately be reached for comment.

Each of the four payments in question (two for $2,000 each and another two for $1,325 each) were amended to show payments for the same amount, description and on the same days to John Pacheco, whose address is the same as Shooters Grill in Rifle, which Boebert owns. Pacheco’s relationship to Boebert was not immediately clear.

The latest discrepancy appeared in a July campaign finance report for the committee Lauren Boebert for Congress. Payments to Venmo were described as “Personal expense of Lauren Boebert billed to campaign account in error. Expense has been reimbursed.”...................................

Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2021/09/22/lauren-boebert-rent-utilities-campaign-finance/

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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert participates in a discussion on the 2nd Amendment during the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 27, 2021, in Orlando, Florida. Joe Raedle, Getty Images

[ZonkerHarris]

1. a nice interest free loan to float her personal expenses.

[dchill]

2. Her "AG Wentworth" campaign fund.

"It's YOUR money - use it when you need it!"

[Slammer]

3. money, money, money, money, money

She's allowed to pay herself a salary out of her campaign funds then use that money however she wants, such as paying her mortgage expenses and personal utility bills.

The cap on the salary she can pay herself is the amount she'd earn for the office she's running for: $174,000.

But she's prohibited from paying those expenses directly out of the campaign funds.

That can seem more than a little nit-picky at times since congressmen of both parties have been dinged on occasion for spending campaign funds on personal expenses.

But it keeps candidates from both paying themselves a salary and also paying for personal expenses out of campaign funds.

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements/personal-use/

[George II]

16. Once elected she can no longer pay herself a salary

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. "in error" means she was grifting and got caught. Either she is stupidly ignorant or is corrupt

$6,650.00 is not so small a restaurant owner would overlook it. A significant amount to a small business owner.

[Champp]

6. Booebert is such a Republican

A pity

[Vinca]

7. How Trumpian.

[Ziggysmom]

8. "In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of

thieves, the only final sin is stupidity." Hunter S. Thompson

[Ford_Prefect]

9. Grifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds...Once more into the Grift dear friends...

I was only grifting like everyone else does...

I suspect that somewhere in the handbook for GOP elected officials there is a script notation of exactly this scenario and what to say.

They really are in it for the money and the privileges, and the ongoing connections to more of the same. It lets them pretend to be so much better than everyone else. But then aren't they?

[PaulRevere08]

10. "Damn, caught frauding I mean billed to campaign account in error."

[yardwork]

11. Lock her up.

[LiberatedUSA]

12. Oh good.

She IS as dumb as she looks.

[FakeNoose]

13. I never realized how profitable it is to run for office

... said no Democrat anywhere.

[Javaman]

14. she's not a grifter. she just doesn't give a shit about anyone other than her self. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Another RWNJ who thinks she's entitled.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Rep. Lauren Boebert used campaign funds for rent and utilities, new filing shows

In the good old days, this idiot would resign

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Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert paid utility and rent bills with campaign funds, according to a new filing the Republican lawmaker made this week with the Federal Election Commission.

The report, submitted to the FEC on Tuesday, details a series of four payments this year totaling $6,650 to John Pacheco, whose address is the same as Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado -- the restaurant that Boebert has owned. The payments are described as rent and utilities that had been erroneously billed to campaign.

Boebert's spokesman did not immediately respond to a CNN inquiry Thursday.

It is against the law to use campaign funds for personal use, but it's not clear that Boebert faces immediate legal jeopardy.
Boebert, a firebrand Republican freshman, previously acknowledged using campaign funds for personal expenses in an earlier filing this year that drew the scrutiny of federal campaign regulators.

Her campaign had described the four payments as a "personal expense of Lauren Boebert billed to the campaign in error."

[Marcuse]

18. I should request a poll.