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Marco Rubio Thought Nobody Would Find These 4 Skeletons In His Closet
1. When he was in the Florida legislature, Rubio commingled his personal finances with the finances if his political committees. A newspaper investigation found that Rubio paid his wife Jeanette $5,700 for “gas and meals” while giving his relatives another $14,000
2. Rubio charged thousands of dollars worth of restaurant meals to a credit card issued to him by the Republican Party of Florida while the cost of his meals was being covered by Florida taxpayers
3. Rubio bought a house in Tallahassee, Florida with his pal state Rep. David Rivera. Rivera failed to make mortgage payments on the house, and was sued by Deutsche Bank for $136,000 as foreclosure proceedings began, soon to be stopped by a quick payment from Rivera. Rivera ended up in an ethics investigation and Rubio shoved him out of his inner circle as he sought more power in Florida and on the national stage.
4. Rubio claims that he can run the entire country’s finances, but he can’t seem to keep his own house in order. He liquidated a $68,000 retirement fund in 2014, costing himself thousands n taxes and penalties – apparently because he needed access to the cash despite his $174,000 Senate salary. When he was asked about this by Fox News, Rubio said he needed the money to replace an air conditioning unit and for “college” for his children (his oldest child is 15, the others are 13, 10, and 8)
SEE MORE: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/10/30/marco-rubio-thought-nobody-would-find-these-4-skeletons-in-his-closet/
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The Hilariously Inept Shenanigans Of Rep. David Rivera (R-FL): Fake Democrats, ‘Bad Girls,’ And Election Fraud, Oh My!
It’s almost like a Carl Hiaasen novel. A corrupt Republican politician with Saint Reagan hung in a place of honor on his office wall (and his fingers in too many unethical pies) who tried to hide his tracks via the generous application of — wait for it! — correction fluid on the damning documents. A fake Democrat “shadow candidate” deployed to influence an election in Rivera’s favor, who hid his race (white) on fliers targeted at African-American communities. A Republican political operative who bragged about how bad-ass she was and how rough she liked to play, who liked to crow about the time she stripped bare and fired a gun at her ex-husband, and who has mysteriously disappeared. An increasingly testy herd of unsmiling Government Suits who are circling around like hungry sharks. Oh, Florida! Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Larry, Moe and Shemp
Florida Representative David Rivera has been the subject of five different ethics violation investigations since 2006, which include tax evasion, campaign finance fraud and money laundering. Rivera apparently felt that he needed to add to his criminal résumé and so he tried some election tampering on for size by funding a fake Democrat to siphon votes, donations and support away from his real Democratic opponent in a primary challenge.
Part One: Rivera pisses off the Suits
Our story starts in the autumn of 2010, when Miami-Dade county prosecutors and Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agents first started giving Rivera the squint-eye for what appeared to the law enforcement officers — and to the Miami Herald, which had expressed some concern about discrepancies between Rivera’s stated income and his financial disclosures — to be campaign finance fraud. Meanwhile, Rivera, a politician who had been around long enough to be a familiar face in his jurisdiction, was in the process of campaigning for a congressional seat (and he won).
Rivera spent thousands of dollars a month on four different credit cards from 2006 to 2010, and dipped into at least $65,000 in campaign funds to pay personal credit card bills for restaurant checks, medical expenses and vacations with his girlfriend. As the Miami Herald reports, “The agents also believed that Rivera used campaign funds to pay for expenses that also had been billed to the state, which covers travel and other costs for lawmakers doing legislative work. They estimated that Rivera double-billed the state for more than $25,000 — an accusation Rivera repeatedly denied.”
The Hilariously Inept Shenanigans Of Rep. David Rivera (R-FL): Fake Democrats, ‘Bad Girls,’ And Election Fraud, Oh My!
It’s almost like a Carl Hiaasen novel. A corrupt Republican politician with Saint Reagan hung in a place of honor on his office wall (and his fingers in too many unethical pies) who tried to hide his tracks via the generous application of — wait for it! — correction fluid on the damning documents. A fake Democrat “shadow candidate” deployed to influence an election in Rivera’s favor, who hid his race (white) on fliers targeted at African-American communities. A Republican political operative who bragged about how bad-ass she was and how rough she liked to play, who liked to crow about the time she stripped bare and fired a gun at her ex-husband, and who has mysteriously disappeared. An increasingly testy herd of unsmiling Government Suits who are circling around like hungry sharks. Oh, Florida! Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Larry, Moe and Shemp
Florida Representative David Rivera has been the subject of five different ethics violation investigations since 2006, which include tax evasion, campaign finance fraud and money laundering. Rivera apparently felt that he needed to add to his criminal résumé and so he tried some election tampering on for size by funding a fake Democrat to siphon votes, donations and support away from his real Democratic opponent in a primary challenge.
Part One: Rivera pisses off the Suits
Our story starts in the autumn of 2010, when Miami-Dade county prosecutors and Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agents first started giving Rivera the squint-eye for what appeared to the law enforcement officers — and to the Miami Herald, which had expressed some concern about discrepancies between Rivera’s stated income and his financial disclosures — to be campaign finance fraud. Meanwhile, Rivera, a politician who had been around long enough to be a familiar face in his jurisdiction, was in the process of campaigning for a congressional seat (and he won).
Rivera spent thousands of dollars a month on four different credit cards from 2006 to 2010, and dipped into at least $65,000 in campaign funds to pay personal credit card bills for restaurant checks, medical expenses and vacations with his girlfriend. As the Miami Herald reports, “The agents also believed that Rivera used campaign funds to pay for expenses that also had been billed to the state, which covers travel and other costs for lawmakers doing legislative work. They estimated that Rivera double-billed the state for more than $25,000 — an accusation Rivera repeatedly denied.”
When I posted this before, my intention was apparently not clear because somebody replied, "Nobody can choose their relatives," which sounded like RUBIO was a better human than PONCE.
