Mark Meadows apparently used taxpayer funds to help wife's friend raise campaign cash
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows appears to have tapped into federal resources to help a friend of his wife's raise money for her campaign to fill his congressional seat, government records show.
The revelation sharpens questions that election law experts raised in Salon's previous report on Meadows' possible use of tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds for personal expenses after announcing he would not seek re-election, a crime that earned prison time for former Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.
As Salon previously reported, Meadows' congressional campaign committee spent $312 on food and $15 for parking fees on Jan. 21 of this year at the Grove Park Inn & Resort in North Carolina. However, Meadows himself was in Washington that day, where he spoke with press during a break in President Trump's Senate impeachment trial.
Meadows' wife, Debbie, however, was on the last day of a four-day swing through Meadows' former district in western North Carolina, holding a series of fundraisers for her friend, Lynda Bennett, a candidate for the seat that Meadows had recently announced he would leave.
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/30/mark-meadows-apparently-used-taxpayer-funds-to-help-wifes-friend-raise-campaign-cash/
= new reply since forum marked as read
