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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018

Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife indicted in use of campaign funds for personal expenses

Author:     Laura Jarrett and Maeve Reston
Source:     Politico
Publication Date:     9:14 PM ET, Tue August 21, 2018
 Link: Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife indicted in use of campaign funds for personal expenses
Stephan:   In the midst of all the Trump corruption, we don't want to lose track of Congressional corruption. Today another Republican representative was indicted, along with his wife, for using the public's money donated for his campaign for personal use to finance his luxury living. The level of corruption amongst Trump administration officials and Republicans in the current Congress is just gobsmacking.

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter and his wife, Margaret, routinely — and illegally — used campaign funds to pay personal bills big and small, from luxury vacations to kids’ school lunches and delinquent family dentistry bills, according to a stinging 47-page indictment unsealed Tuesday.

The charges of wire fraud, falsifying records, campaign finance violations and conspiracy were the culmination of a Department of Justice investigation that has stretched for more than a year, during which the Republican congressman from California has maintained his innocence.
The detailed indictment portrays the Hunters as living well beyond their means and said they “knowingly conspired with each other” to convert campaign funds to personal use.
Federal prosecutors contend that the Hunters repeatedly misrepresented what their expenses were for — in one instance buying personal clothing at a golf course so that the purchase “could be falsely reported to the treasurer as ‘balls for the wounded warriors,’” the indictment says.