Yes, you often are confused. Maybe you should seriously cut back on the booze, bozo.
__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul waited more than a year to disclose that his wife purchased stock in a company that makes a COVID-19 treatment, an investment made after Congress was briefed on the threat of the virus, but before the public was largely aware of its danger.
The Republican filed a mandatory disclosure Wednesday revealing on February 26, 2020 that Kelley Paul purchased somewhere up to $15,000 worth of stock in Gilead, which makes the antiviral drug remdesivir. Under a 2012 law called the Stock Act, which was enacted to stop lawmakers from trading on insider information, any such sale should have been reported within 45 days.
Word of the looming danger posed by the coronavirus began to spread through Congress in late January 2020, after members received the first of several briefings on the economic and public health threat that it posed.
The disclosure, made 16 months late, adds Paul to a growing list of lawmakers who have drawn scrutiny for their stock trading during the outbreak, which was declared a pandemic in March 2020.
Paul, however, is unique in some respects. The first senator to catch COVID-19, he has repeatedly railed against mask mandates and other public health tools to stop the spread of the virus.
YouTube suspended Paul for seven days on Tuesday and removed a video he posted that claimed cloth masks do not prevent infection, saying it violated policies on COVID-19 misinformation.
It is the second time this month that one of Paul's videos has been taken down by YouTube for breaking its rules about misleading content. Paul called YouTube's decision a "badge of honor" in a Tweet.
In other words, this ******* has been lying about masking and vaccines, so people would be end up hospitalized and treated with remdesivir, to drive up the manufacturer's stock price, so he could cash in.
Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert's husband made $478,000 last year working as a "consultant" for an energy firm, information that was not disclosed during Boebert’' congressional campaign, and only reported in her financial disclosure forms filed this week.
In paperwork filed with the House of Representatives on Tuesday, the Republican congresswoman reported that her husband, Jayson Boebert, received the money as a consultant to "Terra Energy Productions" in 2020, and earned $460,000 as a consultant for the firm in 2019.
Boebert did not report the income last year, when she stunned the political world by ousting incumbent Representative Scott Tipton during the GOP primary in Colorado's sprawling 3rd district, which stretches from ski resorts to energy-rich basins in the state's west. Boebert went on to win the general election in the Republican-leaning district.
Because prior to her being elected to Congress, he was making $32,000 a year. Then suddenly, he is making $478,000 a year for the company of a donor whose industry she supports in Congress.
Republican Representative Lauren Boebert paid rent and utility bills with campaign funds in violation of federal campaign finance laws, new filings with the Federal Election Commission show. Representatives for the congresswoman could not immediately be reached for comment.
Each of the four payments in question (two for $2,000 each and another two for $1,325 each) were amended to show payments for the same amount, description, and on the same days to John Pacheco, whose address is the same as Shooters Grill in Rifle, which Boebert owns. Pacheco's relationship to Boebert was not immediately clear.
Swing-district Representative Claudia Tenney has styled herself as a small business booster in the image of Donald Trump—and just like him, some of Tenney's favorite businesses to support are her own.
According to a review of Federal Election Commission records, the congresswoman from upstate New York—who scratched out a 109-vote recount win earlier this year in one of the tightest House races in the nation—has spent tens of thousands of campaign dollars on businesses where she held an ownership stake or an executive job, and from which she reported $130,120 in income in 2020.
In total, Tenney's campaigns, both for federal and state offices, have earned her family's companies more than $100,000. The Tenney team did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
A federal grand jury has indicted Representative Jeff Fortenberry on charges of lying to federal investigators about his campaign contributions
The federal grand jury charged him with one count of scheming to falsify and conceal material facts and two counts of making false statements to federal investigators looking into illegal contributions to his 2016 campaign, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
The nine-term Republican accepted illegal campaign contributions funneled to him from a Nigerian billionaire, then lied about it to the FBI.
In a YouTube video posted Monday night, Fortenberry said he was "shocked" and "stunned," and asked his supporters to rally behind him. Knowingly making false statements to a federal agent is a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.
Two weeks ago Fortenberry issued a vaguely-worded money beg claiming that he is being persecuted by the Biden administration. He recently revealed that he had pressed the panic button in his Capitol hill office multiple times just to "test" the response time of Capitol Police. Fortenberry was also among the 126 House Republicans who signed an amicus brief in support of overturning the election.
Greitens Accused of $100K Campaign Finance Violation
Former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens improperly tapped his state campaign fund to help pay for his current bid for the U.S. Senate.
In a complaint filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission, Washington-based Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit focused on campaign finance laws and ethics, said the Republican spent more than $100,000 from his Missouri account to finance the start-up costs of his political comeback attempt.
The unlawful spending included payments to a longtime aide who is now his Senate campaign manager, as well as to public relations firms and media consulting firms, and for digital media costs, the complaint noted.
After Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina dumped more than $1.6-million in stocks in February 2020, a week before the coronavirus market crash, he called his brother-in-law, according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing. They talked for 50 seconds. Burr, according to the SEC, had material non-public information regarding the incoming economic impact of coronavirus. The very next minute, Burr's brother-in-law, Gerald Fauth, called his broker.
In the filings, the SEC also revealed that there is an ongoing insider trading investigation into both Burr and Fauth's trades. It had previously been reported that federal prosecutors had decided not to charge Burr. Burr's spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions. Fauth's lawyer and the SEC did not respond to questions. Fauth hung-up on a reporter.
There are tapes. That is the news from a recent filing in federal court in the case against indicted Representative Jeff Fortenberry, whose defense team acknowledged that the government made at least two recordings of the sitting congressman over the course of its investigation surrounding illicit campaign contributions from a Nigerian-Lebanese billionaire.
According to the report, the mountain of evidence against Fortenberry is so vast that the prosecutors have asked the judge to delay the case just so the defense can catch up.
Representative Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska was convicted late Thursday on charges that he lied to federal authorities about an illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign from a foreign billionaire at a 2016 Los Angeles fundraiser.
A federal jury in L.A. deliberated about two hours before finding the nine-term Republican guilty of concealing information, and two counts of making false statements to authorities.
Fortenberry was charged after denying to the FBI that he was aware he had received illicit funds from Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian billionaire of Lebanese descent.
Fortenberry, 61, was charged last October with three felony counts, including one count of scheming to falsify and conceal material facts, and two counts of making false statements to federal investigators.
"After learning of illegal contributions to his campaign, the congressman repeatedly chose to conceal the violations of federal law to protect his job, his reputation, and his close associates," U.S. Attorney Tracy L. Wilkison said in a statement.
Fortenberry is scheduled to be sentenced on June 28th. Each charge carries a statutory maximum penalty of five years in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
Fortenberry's conviction could mark the end of the nine-term Republican's political career. A Nebraska congressman with little name recognition outside of his state, he would still be eligible to run for and serve in Congress as a felon, though a resignation is likely, given the threat of expulsion.
An investigation has revealed that Lauren Boebert was an unlicensed, paid escort through SugarDaddyMeet.com. Text messages show she was bankrupt, and looking for "side income." She described her work as "pay-to-play."
She was hired by a Koch family member, who subsequently "introduced" her to Republican Senator Raphael "Ted" Cruz in Aspen, Colorado. Cruz encouraged her to run for Congress, and donated at least $136,250 to her campaign.
Boebert, however, did not disclose a $70,500 donation from Cruz, even though he disclosed it in his Federal Election Commission filings. Oops.
Boebert also had an abortion in Grand Junction, Colorado when she was 18, and she had another one five years later at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Glenwood Springs, Colorado "due to her 'work' with a SugarDaddyMeet.com client."
On May 10th 2020, Boebert was driving an off-road vehicle under the influence of alcohol in Moab, Utah and caused a crash that endangered her minor son, and nearly killed her sister-in-law, who had to be MedEvac lifted from the scene.
This was two weeks before her primary, and she paid to keep her sister-in-law quiet. She is currently being investigated for the cover-up, in addition to reckless endangerment and driving under the influence.
so on top of everything she's a literal whore, and by her own definition, a 2-time "baby killer". sure she'll fall out of favor immediately with "family values" conservatives........right?
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