Dem Rep. In Hot Water: Paid Sister’s Firm $200K From Campaign Funds During Midterms
Oh, look.
Yet another story about a lack of Congressional ethics starring a Democrat politician the mainstream media will ignore.
How about that?
From Free Beacon:
A Democratic representative disbursed nearly $200,000 from his campaign funds to a law firm that is owned by his sister throughout the 2018 election cycle, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings.
Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr. (D., Mo.) made the payments from his campaign committee, Clay Jr. for Congress, to the Law Office of Michelle C. Clay, LLC, a law firm owned by his sister, Michelle, that does not have a website and whose address appears to be a residential home in Silver Spring, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C.
The first payment to the firm this past cycle was in the amount of $9,000 and was made on Jan. 4, 2017, for professional services fees including fundraising and compliance. In addition to the fundraising and compliance services, the payments to Michelle Clay’s firm were marked for community organizing, legal counsel, and record keeping.
Race-baiting Reverend Al Sharpton has made a lot of money over the decades.
He decided to pocket another $531,000 by selling the rights to his life story.
Nothing wrong with that, right?
Here’s the thing.
He sold the rights to his own charity.
From Fox News:
The Rev. Al Sharpton has found an eager buyer for the rights to his life story — his own charity.
The National Action Network agreed to pay the activist preacher $531,000 for his “life story rights for a 10-year period,” according to the non-profit’s latest tax filing, which was obtained by The Post.
NAN can sell the rights to Hollywood.
Sharpton, president of NAN, made over $240,000 in compensation from the group in 2017 alone.
Linda Sugin, a Fordham University Law School professor and associate dean, warns of “funny business” afoot.
Sugin: “When I see this kind of thing, it just makes me roll my eyes because there’s so much potential for funny business.“
Al, Al, Al.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) must’ve misspoken.
How else does someone explain why she thanked Al Sharpton for “saving America?”
WATCH:
“Thank you, thank you for helping take back America.”
“Uh, people are call— all over the place are calling me, writing, airports here and there— thank you for saving America.”
“I give those thanks to you.”
“Thank you for saving America. Reverend Sharpton, thank you for saving America!”
This is like saying Hillary Clinton made America great again.
Facepalm.
According to Barack Obama, Nancy “will go down as one of the most effective legislative leaders that this country has ever seen.”
You couldn’t make that up if you tried.
Facepalm.
WATCH:
Barack Obama: "Nancy Pelosi, when the history is written, will go down as one of the most effective legislative leaders that this country has ever seen." (via CNN) pic.twitter.com/yclhKG9mlT
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 21, 2018
Barack, dude.
Pelosi doesn’t speak so goodly. Maybe English isn’t her first language?
Pelosi: “And they’re here now, in what is one of the most tranformative, new members of— body of members of Congress.”
Pelosi: “We will— we will win 40, uh, we will win 4— we will have, take, win 40 seats.”
Pelosi: “The Special Counsel cannot be fired without cause. He, he or she would be granted a three-judge appeal panel if fired, uh, could only be removed by a Senate-confirmed AG— replaced by a Se— uh, Senate-confirmed Attorney General.”
Check out her speech…
WATCH:
According to Pelosi, all Republicans are “despicable.”
WATCH:
DCCC fundraising email on Kavanaugh is wildly misleading. It says McConnell is resuming Kavanaugh hearings without hearing the allegations And that Kavanaugh could be confirmed in “a matter of hours”
Not true. pic.twitter.com/LSEnDSSUyD— Natalie Andrews (@nataliewsj) September 21, 2018
Pelosi on Kavanaugh: “I think he disqualified himself with those statements and the manner in which he went after the Clintons and the Democrats … There was a way for him to go forward with dignity and without jeopardizing his own objectivity in the public mind.” pic.twitter.com/IZNu8NnR0O
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 29, 2018