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Passages

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Thu Dec 19, 2024, 08:44 PM Thursday

Legal Complaints : CREW files complaint against Kyrsten Sinema

Legal Complaints
CREW files complaint against Kyrsten Sinema
December 18, 2024

Senator Kyrsten Sinema appears to have used her campaign to pay for personal expenses, including trips to Europe and California wine country, according to a complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington with the Federal Election Commission.

The Federal Election Campaign Act prohibits political campaigns from spending campaign funds for personal use if the expenses “would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.” Sinema announced she would not run for reelection on March 5, 2024, and since then her campaign spent over $100,000 for what appear to be personal travel expenses. The campaign received no contributions, other than one unitemized dollar, after disbursing these funds.

“The law applies to you whether it’s your first week in office or your last,” said CREW President Noah Bookbinder. “Spending thousands of dollars of campaign contributions on yourself is even more troubling when it comes after you’ve announced you’re no longer a candidate.”

In the incident possibly furthest from campaigning, three weeks after Sinema announced she would not run again, her campaign spent more than $3,000 in Rome and Milan, Italy. The complaint also identified suspicious spending around the Boston Marathon, which is not the first time Sinema has spent campaign funds around it.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/legal-complaints/crew-files-complaint-against-kyrsten-sinema/

Good bye, soulless.

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Legal Complaints : CREW files complaint against Kyrsten Sinema (Original Post) Passages Thursday OP
She did nothing but grift the whole time in office. Irish_Dem Thursday #1
Yes. Her legacy is how she gutted BBB. Passages Thursday #2
She was a sleeper agent, GOP all along. Irish_Dem Thursday #3
She's a closet R. And nothing is going to happen to her. onecaliberal Thursday #4
How soon before PhilosopherKing Sunday #5

Irish_Dem

(59,655 posts)
1. She did nothing but grift the whole time in office.
Thu Dec 19, 2024, 08:58 PM
Thursday

Selling her votes and loyalty to McConnell.
Then spending all her time on marathons and travel.
Wonder how much money she will leave with when she exits.

Passages

(1,430 posts)
2. Yes. Her legacy is how she gutted BBB.
Thu Dec 19, 2024, 09:07 PM
Thursday

She fooled a lot of her voters, it was shameful.

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