HAHAHAHAHA! Colorado to Investigate Lauren Boebert for Alleged Misuse of Campaign Funds

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Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has come under investigation from several state agencies over her alleged misuse of campaign funds, the New York Times reported today.

Boebert allegedly used campaign funds to reimburse herself for $22,259 in mileage—a sum strikingly similar to the $20,000 she paid in tax liens for her previous failure to pay unemployment premiums on her restaurant, Shooters Grill. The allegations were brought to the Colorado attorney general’s office by the American Muckrakers PAC, which recently tanked Madison Cawthorn’s congressional run.


https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/06/colorado-lauren-boebert-campaign-funds-investigation/

[2naSalit]

1. May they succeed in...

Whisking her swiftly out of the political world.

[Novara]

2. SWEET!

Get her!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Campaign funds equals PERSONAL PIGGY BANK

Just like her idol TDFG.

Who cares about laws? This from someone who did not graduate from High School?

At least Elle Woods got into Harvard Law and graduated Top of her class.

[Jerry2144]

15. Her understanding of anything makes me wonder

If she even graduated kindergarten. She’s very sharp, like a bowling ball is sharp.

[AZ8theist]

20. High school drop out...

And dumber than a box of rocks..

https://www.politicalflare.com/2021/12/high-school-dropout-lauren-boebert-makes-major-mistake-in-a-tweet-and-now-shes-a-laughing-stock/

[onetexan]

21. it all comes down to money doesn't it? For the GOP that's why they run for office - gain notoriety,

whether that be fame or infamy no difference to them, and suck as much $ from the public to support their insanity so they can line their pockets.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Rules, laws, boundaries do not apply to sociopaths

[Lonestarblue]

5. Trump uses campaign funds as his personal piggy bank. She's just following her god.

The words “honest” and “Republican” are becoming an oxymoron.

[FoxNewsSucks]

14. Those two words haven't been related for a very long time.

A very, very long time.

[brooklynite]

6. Not clear what the legal basis for the investigation is...

The campaign funds were for Federal office; that puts them under the jurisdiction of the FEC.

[hlthe2b]

7. She used it to pay off State Taxes. Dept. of Revenue for CO might well be one agency investigating.

Every state prosecutes FRAUD. That said, this is an investigation to SEE if any state laws HAVE been violated, so your criticism is putting cart before the horse.

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/06/08/lauren-boebert-investigation-mileage-colorado/

[brooklynite]

8. As a rule, tax agencies don't care where the money comes from...

[hlthe2b]

9. They do with elected officials if fraud is being promulgated.

Especially given the gross income (falsely) reported then comes into play.

[Ray Bruns]

16. Tell that to Al Capone.

[NHvet]

19. In Colorado and many states they do...

Utilizing an illegal source of funds or ill-gotten funds to pay off a tax lien is illegal in Colorado as well as other states and also on the federal level. Couldn't be happening to a more deserving person in my opinion.

[ZonkerHarris]

28. actually they do care. As a rule.

[kozar]

12. Also turned in,

Mileage reports for campaigning in Co. The mileage she turned in was more than the circumference of our lovely Earth. Hmmmm


Koz

[keithbvadu2]

26. On the road again

[Tanuki]

10. Using ill-gotten funds to pay off a Colorado tax lien is illegal under state law

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/us/politics/lauren-boebert.html

..."At the core of the inquiry are eight tax liens from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment totaling $20,000 and filed against Ms. Boebert from August 2016 to February 2020 for failure to pay unemployment premiums on her business, Shooters Grill.

In late 2020, Ms. Boebert reimbursed herself for mileage from the 2020 campaign and paid off the liens.

“As you are both fully aware, utilizing an illegal source of funds or ill-gotten funds to pay off a tax lien is illegal in Colorado and under federal law,” the Muckrakers complaint to the attorney general stated, adding, “That is the very definition of ill-gotten funds.”

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[hlthe2b]

11. There you go, brooklynite. I didn't have time to search the statute, so thank you, Tanuki

I presume the NYT did...

[FoxNewsSucks]

13. One can only shake one's head in wonder

at the constant criticism coming from certain supposedly Democratic liberals when republicon crime is rightfully investigated.

[OnlinePoker]

17. Hopefully Colorado Republicans will Cawthorn her ass in the primary later this month

Looking at her opponent's record in the Colorado Senate, though, Don Coram, he seems a little too centrist for the average Trumpian.

[Eyeball_Kid]

18. Boebert is an angry, rageful woman.

She considers herself to be one of Trump’s faithful, loyal soldiers who would have been instrumental in a successful coup. Tearing down the established order is exciting to her, no matter what replaces it. She’s dangerous.

And again, should we continue to speculate on the identity of the person who planted the pipe bombs on 1/5/21?

[librechik]

22. I'm thinking of moving to Rifle to run against Boebert

However there is no more bereft and bedeviled place in all of Colorado. Cannot live there. Cannot imagine what kind of fossilized reptiles could make a go of it. And I have lived in the most obscure and difficult places in our great state. The thought of her defiling our democracy is galling.




Cheap rent, though. It's tempting.

[gldstwmn]

23. Uh oh. Boebert made a boo boo!

[Blue Owl]

24. Bimboebert Alert!

[Brainfodder]

25. Stupid prize winner!

Nice wrist jewelry awaits, soonish!?!

[ZonkerHarris]

27. 38,000+ miles at 58.5 cents a mile fed rate $22,259. Colorado is bigger than I thought