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

CNN ^ | 08/21/2018 | By Laura Jarrett and Maeve Reston,

[CaptainK]

Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife, Margaret, were indicted Tuesday on charges related to the misuse of $250,000 worth of campaign funds for personal expenses and the filing of false campaign finance records.

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.

Republican Party leaders had long worried that with a potential indictment looming, Hunter's traditionally safe district which makes up much of eastern San Diego County could be at risk of Democratic takeover in November's midterm election.

[kiryandil]

Lawfare.

They're using the Ted Stevens gambit.

With September coming on, I'm getting a little bit impatient waiting for the hammer to drop on the Lefty partisans at the DOJ.

[1Old Pro]

Term Limits would decrease these crimes, as it takes years to learn how to break these laws and amass enough funds to think you can get away with it.

[38special]

Don’t hold your breath on that.

[familyop]

Have the lawyers finished their coup against the U.S.A., yet?

[deport]

Term Limits would decrease these crimes,

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What you be your term limit number?
This dude has only been in office since 2009.

[1Old Pro]

The House was meant to be fluid and part time, so I'd support 4 terms or 8 years. The senate I would support two terms or 12 years.

[familyop]

The answer is to vote for Republicans. Do it for President Trump.

[reasonisfaith]

“doesn’t matter if the charges are legitimate”

Let’s ponder this for a bit in the larger context. That larger context is the one that always comes back to bite the schemers and the colluders. It’s what got Trump elected.

[deport]

That would definitely get the gov’t back closer to a
peoples gov’t and not the lifers gov’t. Thanks

[1Old Pro]

That would definitely get the gov’t back closer to a peoples gov’t and not the lifers gov’t. Thanks

I think it would also make it harder for special interests as it's easier for them to pocket incumbents running for election year after year and mostly winning so their investments are safer/less risky.

[Reily]

Personally I don’t think that ploy is not as effective as it used to be. For the following reasons

A) People are on to it. Its been used to often,
B) People are not going to waver on Trump.

[Thank You Rush]

No, his father wasn’t “taken down”...As someone else said, that was Duke Cunningham and for some reason, one is always confused with the other.

The following is the dad in the 2008 presidential race. An honorable man who did a heck of a job for our military while in the House.

“”Conservative commentator Ann Coulter and aviation legend Chuck Yeager both endorsed Hunter as their choice for President, but Hunter received little support from the Republican establishment. Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, who was also seeking the Republican nomination for President, stated that Hunter might play a role in a potential Huckabee administration, noting that he is “extraordinarily well qualified to be Secretary of Defense.”[42]

As the caucus and primary season got underway, Hunter began being excluded from Republican debate forums. On January 7, 2008, he held a press conference where reporters thought he would announce his withdrawal. Instead, he surprised pundits by first lambasting ABC News and Fox News not allowing him to participate in previous days’ televised debates and then declaring that he would not withdraw from the presidential race: “I am not going to let some arrogant knucklehead executive in a glass office 10 stories above a mall in New York City decide the outcome of this election.”[43][44]””

I cannot fathom the charges against the son and especially the reporting that this started from day one after he was elected. He’s a former Marine officer, served in both Iraq and Afghanistan and joined the USMC the day after 9/11/01.

One story reports that he’s guilty of “mischaracterization” of expenditures. I guess another way of saying misclassifying expenses. Normally unless he does his own taxes and completes the reports for the FEC, that would be his accountant’s job. Hillary and Bill did it with THE FOUNDATION and got away with it and all that was required of them was amending their returns and reports. Presto, magic - problem goes away...

[kiryandil]

How is it our guys always get caught? Or is it that we just care and the dems just expect it.

You've been here since 1998. Analyze the pattern.

Ollie North and the attacks on Reagan.

Attacks on George H. W. Bush just before the 1992 election:

On the eve of the 1992 presidential election, on October 30, Lawrence Walsh obtained a grand jury re-indictment of Caspar Weinberger on one count of false statements. One phrase in that superseding indictment referred to President George H.W. Bush. Some believe that Bush had been closing the gap with Bill Clinton, and that this event stopped his momentum. Clinton administration attorney Lanny Davis called the decision to indict a week before the election rather than after the election "bizarre." Judge Thomas Hogan dismissed the October indictment two months later for being outside the statute of limitations. Weinberger's subsequent pardon by President George Bush in December 1992 preempted any trial. Walsh steadfastly denied that the investigation was politically motivated, while Bush and others criticized it as "the criminalization of policy differences."

Zero felony indictments during the criminal Clinton administration - Ron Brown "died in an accident", and Rapin Bill was never prosecuted for his felonies.

Then there were the attacks on George W. Bush, culminating with Scooter Libby, who Bush left twisting in the wind.

Then came the "pure-as-the-driven-snow" Zerobama administration.

Fast And Furious.

Targeting of the Tea Party by the IRS and other agencies.

And on and on - yet NO felony indictments.

And here we are - the Trump administration being attacked by lawfare - so the minority Democrat Party and its Media muscle can crow about "criminal Republicans" once again.

This is a decades-long Uniparty game.

Only hemp is going to sort it out.

[Reily]

Yeah I got him confused with Cunningham!

All Californians look alike to me! (A joke!)

[Thank You Rush]

Man - that’s a lot of overdraft fees. I am going to become a democrat so I can stick my head in the sand and defend Hunter as I do not want to believe this!!!!

“”The Hunters overdrew their personal bank accounts more 1,100 times in a seven-year period, according to the indictment from the US Attorney’s Office in San Diego, resulting in $37,761 in “overdraft” and “insufficient funds” bank fees.””

[Thank You Rush]

“”Should have listened to his parents and cut that bitch loose. She ‘hints’ at abuse to the media,””

I don’t understand where this comes from. Didn’t see it in the linked article...

[Reily]

Yeah, that does not sound good!

Sounds like he was learning fast how to be a “Swamp Critter”!

Doesn’t he now occupy is father’s congressional seat?

[reasonisfaith]

The system which allows illegitimate charges to be brought for political reasons (whether or not this is what happened with Rep Hunter) is the system that will be discarded and replaced by the people.

[Reily]

Read post 154

Also as long as long as there is “prosecutorial discretion”, popularly elected DA’s (This guy’s a fed ..I think! ..so previous example doesn’t apply!) & grand juries there will be questionable indictments. Haven’t you heard the saying “You can indict a ham sandwich!”. I don’t see any viable replacement that wouldn’t be much much worse!

Trump should have fired on the first day all the fed DAs like Clinton did! If you don’t use the tools you’re given, you only have yourself to blame!

[deport]

And Hillary CONTINUES to walk free.

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I agree but it’s more of a ‘waddle’ imo.