Kavanaugh Ran Up Debt Buying Baseball Tickets

[RandySF]

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh “incurred tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt buying baseball tickets over the past decade and at times reported liabilities that could have exceeded the value of his cash accounts and investment assets,” the Washington Post reports.

The White House said Kavanaugh “built up the debt by buying Washington Nationals season tickets and tickets for playoff games for himself and a ‘handful’ of friends.”

“Kavanaugh’s most recent financial disclosure forms reveal assets between $15,000 and $65,000, which would put him at the bottom of the financial ranking of justices, most of whom list well over $1 million in assets.”



https://politicalwire.com/2018/07/11/kavanaugh-ran-up-debt-buying-baseball-tickets/

[JDC]

1. Very odd. Not a great decision maker apparently

[RandySF]

4. My stomach hurts if I pay more than $100 for tix

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[Initech]

20. I bought a ticket for Nine Inch Nails in December. $110 for GA. GA!!!!!

And I thought that was high! I can't imagine what kind of tickets he was charging!

[Lindsay]

2. I'm sure his financial disclosures

are just as complete and honest as those of the rest of this Vladministration.

(but you probably knew that)

[MontanaMama]

3. Baseball tickets?

How many games does he attend for Pete’s sake? Is he a scalper? Please don’t tell me he is a Cubs fan...I’ll be all kinds of pissed off. That said...if he makes these kinds of stupid decisions you know he’s got to be making others. Keep digging!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I suppose that's better than spending all his money on coke and hookers, but

it still seems pretty irresponsible for a federal judge - especially one who belongs to a party that advocates personal responsibility to the point of wanting to regulate the kinds of foods the poors can buy with SNAP benefits.

[RandySF]

7. Many govt officials get warnings over this kind of activity

[ret5hd]

8. Well...you reminded me of a classic:

[RhodeIslandOne]

18. That's what "baseball games" are the euphemism for n/m

[mountain grammy]

6. He'll get rich now.. beyond his wildest dreams.

If pictures were published of him fucking a dead pig, he would still be confirmed.

[DrDan]

9. assets of $ 15-65,000??? A judge? A Yale law school grad?

I sure hope someone is investigating this.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. That doesn't include his house, but even so it seems pretty meager

for someone who's been making $200,000K a year as a federal appellate judge. One would expect him to at least have a retirement account of some kind.

[DrDan]

12. autos? stocks? retirement?

don't believe those numbers for a second

[B2G]

14. He has one. $500K.

Here's a better article with more detail.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-piled-up-credit-card-debt-by-purchasing-nationals-tickets-white-house-says/2018/07/11/8e3ad7d6-8460-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html?utm_term=.a5f276c9b714

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. OK, that's in the update to the article.

I couldn't imagine how a long-time federal employee didn't have a government pension.

[B2G]

10. Are these his personal credit cards?

If so, why is this even news?

[HipChick]

13. High debt makes you susceptible...

to being owned,bribed etc..paid off

[B2G]

16. Again, better data here.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-piled-up-credit-card-debt-by-purchasing-nationals-tickets-white-house-says/2018/07/11/8e3ad7d6-8460-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html?utm_term=.a5f276c9b714

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Personal debts are always taken into consideration for high-level government employees

because if they're seriously in debt they're more likely to be corruptible by bribery or blackmail. Federal judges have been impeached for bribery.

[HipChick]

21. Isn't that how they have caught several spies recently?

Wasn't from the documents....its was from debts and sudden large payments not from windfalls in bank accounts..

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. It's one reason for the bank reporting requirement for deposits of more than $10,000.

Large amounts of cash are often a sign of drug dealing but can also be evidence of other crimes like blackmail and bribery.

For example, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert:

In May 2015, Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals to evade bank reporting requirements and making false statements to federal investigators. Federal prosecutors said that the money was to compensate for and conceal deliberately unspecified misconduct by Hastert against an unnamed individual years earlier. Soon afterward, public accusations emerged that Hastert had sexually abused three male students (including the aforementioned unnamed individual) when he was a teacher more than three decades earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert

[tenderfoot]

26. I'm so shocked the poster is going to bat for Kavanaugh.

Who could have anticipated such a thing?

[babylonsister]

19. Might have a lil gambling problem? nt

[question everything]

23. It is unbelievable

Many of us have had credit card debts, but $50,000? For baseball ticket?

I think that he would have been disqualified for many jobs where judgments are part of it.

[UTUSN]

24. A judge with poor *judge*ment, no worries, he'll soon rake in tons from his sponsors.

[ck4829]

25. K&R