Rashida Tlaib ordered to pay back nearly $11,000 to campaign for illegal disbursements…

Last year we told you that Rashida Tlaib was being investigated for illegal campaign disbursements to herself. The results of that investigation are in and Tlaib is being ordered to pay back nearly $11,000:

FOX NEWS – Rep. Rashida Tlaib has been ordered to repay $10,800 to her campaign committee to account for the salary she had paid herself from her campaign coffers after she had been elected to Congress in 2018.

The bipartisan House Ethics Committee found the Michigan Democrat’s violation “was one of bad timing and not ill intent.” The committee ordered her to pay $10,800 of the $17,500 she received from her campaign in 2018. Congressional candidates are allowed to draw paychecks from their campaigns, but payments are only allowed during an active candidacy.

“The committee did not find that she sought to unjustly enrich herself by receiving the campaign funds at issue,” the committee wrote Friday. “Indeed, during her campaign, Representative Tlaib received a conservative amount of campaign funds, well below the legal threshold for the maximum amount of salary she was eligible to receive; these payments allowed her to forego her salary from her full-time employment so that she could fully participate in campaign activities.”

“However, because she received some of those funds, totaling $10,800, for time periods in which she was no longer a congressional candidate, those funds were inconsistent with [the campaign law’s] personal use restrictions,” the committee continued.

The committee said it had reviewed more than 600 pages of documents and interviewed five witnesses to determine the nature of the payments that occurred between Nov. 16 and Dec. 1, 2018.

When we reported the investigation last November, there were emails that been sent from Tlaib requesting the money and they honestly sounded like a legit need for cash:

In one April 2018 email offered as an exhibit by OCE, Tlaib wrote that she was “struggling financially right now” and was “sinking.” She continued: “So I was thinking the campaign could loan me money, but Ryan said that the committee could actually pay me. I was thinking a one time payment of $5k.”

In another email, on April 4, 2018, Tlaib wrote: “I am just not going to make it through the campaign without a stipend.”

“With the loss of a second income to lean back on,” she wrote. “I am requesting $2,000 per two weeks but not exceeding $12,000. The cost of living stipend is going towards much needed expenses due to campaigning that includes car maintenance, child care and other necessities. Please let me know if I can proceed.”

As much as some may have expected something more nefarious, it never really sounded like something of that magnitude. So essentially I don’t have a problem with the conclusions of this investigation, as long as she pays it back. Now if they can just do something about her anti-Semitism….


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