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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,104 posts)
Mon Oct 4, 2021, 02:52 PM Oct 2021

House Republican says he's facing federal prosecution

Source: Axios

The top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee's agriculture panel raised money for a legal defense fund with claims he’s facing federal prosecution that a spokesperson later disavowed.

Driving the news: On a fundraising page for a new legal expense fund — which was later taken off-line — Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) wrote: "[President] Biden’s FBI is using its unlimited power to prosecute me on a bogus charge."

Neither Fortenberry nor the FBI responded immediately to requests for comments, but a Fortenberry spokesperson later said the congressman "never saw or approved that language."

The investigation in question, the spokesperson said, had to do with illegal campaign contributions by a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire to a number of congressional Republicans.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-republican-says-hes-facing-141131591.html



Scam for money?
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RAB910

(3,445 posts)
1. Yup the people who support the GOP are so mentally ill and hate America so much
Mon Oct 4, 2021, 03:07 PM
Oct 2021

that Republican elected officials feel comfortable raising money because they got caught committing crimes

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
2. A Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire
Mon Oct 4, 2021, 03:07 PM
Oct 2021

contributed to a number of Congressional Republicans. Was that in an email? With the GOP's expertise in projection, all kinds of things pop up.

justgamma

(3,660 posts)
10. They got money from a Nigerian?
Mon Oct 4, 2021, 05:23 PM
Oct 2021

I guess that's where all the Nigerian scams send the money they collect. Straight from Grandma Ida to the Republicans.

czarjak

(11,191 posts)
13. Jodey Arrington is on the Appropriation Committee too...
Mon Oct 4, 2021, 09:45 PM
Oct 2021

And he’s carried out marching orders from W., Chance Hance and The Stable Genius. Steeped in the protocol. (If you know what I mean) Did I mention he replaced Randy Neugebauer? Another jewel.

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