Uh-oh! Rep. Lauren Boebert might be in trouble.
According to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission, the QAnon congresswoman, who hates LGBTQ people, illegally used campaign funds to cover her rent and utilities bills.
The filing, submitted to the FEC last week, revealed that she paid back $6,650 to her campaign after using the money to make four Venmo payments–two at $2,000 each and two at $1,325 each–for “personal expenses.”
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The illegal payments were made to someone named John Pachecho, whose address is the same as Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado, the gun-themed diner run by Boebert and her husband, Jayson. (Yes, this is the same Jayson who once exposed himself to a teenager at a bowling alley.)
The illegal payments was first discovered in the July campaign finance report of the “Lauren Boebert for Congress” committee.
In a letter, Shannon Ringgold, senior campaign finance analyst at the FEC, told Boebert’s campaign that if the payments were for “personal use of campaign funds, the Commission may consider taking further legal action.”
The campaign replied by saying it was really, really sorry and the payments were made in error and all the money had been reimbursed and it would never, ever, ever happen again.
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Adav Noti, a top official with the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center and former associate general counsel at the FEC, tells CNN that using donors’ money to pay your rent and utilities is a “flagrant violation” of the law.
“There are some gray areas in campaign finance law, and this is really not one of them,” he says.
These latest reports of Boebert misuse of campaign funds comes just one month after it was reported her husband (again, the same guy who once exposed himself to a teenager at a bowling alley) received $478,000 from Terra Energy Productions in 2020 for “consulting services,” which she didn’t report during her campaign.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Tombear
Boebert is as intelligent as a house plant!
BaltoSteve
That is the most offensive thing I’ve seen on here in a while… How could you possible make a connection between the two? My Christmas cactus is WAAAAAYYYY smarter than that ugly bag of mostly water!
Matthewnow
Don’t insult house plants!
Gordie
Let’s see, Boebert, hater of LGBTQ, Q-Anon freak, Perv/pedo husband, gun freak, dangerous seditionist traitor, ignorant of the law and Constitution, ripping off campaign finance for personal expenses when her perv husband makes half a million. Pretty much on brand for MAGA world. And of course there will be no consequences for this garbage woman.
Vince
Well, if they found out she liked women then they’d drum her out in a heartbeat. I’m thinking Aaron Schock and his decorating his office to look like Downton Abbey and getting sweetheart real-estate deals for political favors.
GayEGO
Another stinko Trumpster!
Prax07
People like her really make me think there should be mental fitness tests to buy firearms and to run for public office. Most of the current GOP would’ve been disqualified from both.
doodleboi
I’ve long thought the MMPI should in law enforcement , the Government and buying Guns of any sort.
Cam
Another Republican thief.
Kangol2
Grifters gonna grift. Boebert shouldn’t be near any elected office, anywhere.
trojanboy
Is this bitch still alive?
Max
someone slap those glasses off her face…
Adamok
ohmygudnes
Invader7
When is this bitch gonna croak ?