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Wednesday, October 20th, 2021

Federal grand jury indicts Nebraska GOP lawmaker

Author:     Cristina Marcos
Source:     The Hill
Publication Date:     10/19/21 05:11 PM EDT
 Link: Federal grand jury indicts Nebraska GOP lawmaker
Stephan:   Here is today's Republican Scum Award winner, Representative Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska who demonstrates once again, that apparently you have to be a corrupt grifter to get the backing of the Republican Party. It will be interesting to see how the voters of Nebraska vote in 2022 when Fortenberry is next up for election. Will they vote him back into office, unless he is already in prison It wouldn't surprise me.
Republican Representative of Nebraska and winner of the SR Scum Award

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) for allegedly concealing information and making false statements to authorities investigating illegal contributions to his 2016 campaign.

Fortenberry has been charged with one count of scheming to conceal material facts and two counts of making false statements to federal investigators, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.

Fortenberry denied the accusations in a video obtained by the Omaha World-Herald earlier Tuesday.

“We will fight these charges. I did not lie to them,” Fortenberry said in the

The charges stem from an FBI investigation into $180,000 in illegal campaign contributions from Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian billionaire, that were funneled through a group of Californians between 2012 and 2016 to four American politicians.

The contributions included $30,000 that went to Fortenberry’s 2016 reelection campaign during a fundraiser held in Los Angeles.

Foreign nationals are prohibited from contributing to U.S. election campaigns. Chagoury made an agreement with the U.S. attorney’s office in 2019 in which he agreed […]

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1 Comment

  1. Michael on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 5:31 am

    I’m not sure that you could find a politician, any politician, who does not deserve the SCUM award. Both major parties equally guilty, including Joe “I know nothing of Hunter’s business dealings” Biden! Politics is corrupt, no less than gangsterism and organized crime.