Via CNN -- although I'm sure at least one "writer" at The Daily Beast thinks the Feds are only doing it because they want to sleep with him.
The FBI and the federal prosecutors in Illinois are investigating whether Rep. Aaron Schock broke the law in accounting for campaign expenses, according to people familiar with the matter. Schock in recent days announced plans to resign, citing controversy surrounding allegations that he improperly accounted for travel and other contributions from donors and mileage reimbursements for a personal car he purchased with campaign funds. But the probe managed by prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's office in Springfield, Ill., means his legal troubles are just beginning.Keep reading HERE.
BNR exclusively broke the following stories alleging Schock’s impropriety:
- FEBRUARY 6: Schock’s above market value sale of a home to a campaign donor
- FEBRUARY 10: Schock spent the last 4+ years living with donors
- FEBRUARY 12: Schock’s campaign expenses of cigars, massages, chairlift tickets
- MARCH 5: Questionable staff bonuses including to his personal photographer
- MARCH 16: Schock’s purchase of a warehouse via a shell corporation – a transaction arranged by and financed by donors who were lobbying him
- MARCH 17: Schock collecting more than $200,000 in personal reimbursements from his campaign.
3 comments:
I'm no fan of Signorile, but he wrote a good piece in answer to that dumb thing in The Daily Beast-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/aaron-schock_b_6909968.html
WHO isn't a fan of Signorile????
Guess I am now. Anyhoo, "pink-baiting" is a serious issue, but wow, it's sad when The Washington Post gets it so wrong-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/civilities-please-stop-pink-baiting-aaron-schock/2015/03/19/b5be2f6a-ce79-11e4-8a46-b1dc9be5a8ff_story.html
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