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babylonsister

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Fri Aug 24, 2018, 08:38 AM Aug 2018

Hunter Defending Misuse of Campaign Funds with Campaign Funds

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https://politicalwire.com/2018/08/24/using-campaign-funds-to-defend-misuse-of-campaign-funds/

Hunter Defending Misuse of Campaign Funds with Campaign Funds
August 24, 2018 at 8:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments


“Rep. Duncan Hunter’s (R-CA) legal defense is coming from the same campaign coffers he and his wife are accused of misusing, so far amounting to more than $600,000 for the lawyers,” Roll Call reports.

“Federal Election Commission filings show Hunter’s campaign made payments for ‘legal services’ or ‘legal fees’ to eight different law firms in excess of $600,000 during the 2018 election cycle. This includes disbursements of $182,000 to the San Diego-based law firm Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek, which is representing Hunter in the grand jury investigation. The five-term GOP incumbent and his wife were indicted for allegedly using $250,000 in campaign funds for personal use.”
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Hunter Defending Misuse of Campaign Funds with Campaign Funds (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2018 OP
If you're gonna go down, may as well double-down C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #1
I may be wrong, but I think that's a permitted expenditure gratuitous Aug 2018 #2

gratuitous

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2. I may be wrong, but I think that's a permitted expenditure
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 08:47 AM
Aug 2018

The problem, of course, is that donors are unlikely to keep contributing to a candidate using the money to get him into office is instead spending it to keep him out of jail.

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