Ethics and finance issues while in office - seems to run in this family. Dad was a congressman had financially dealings ethics issue (wife ghost employment (or was it a daughter) and some odd municipal land deal) in the early aughts. Never seemed to effect Duncan Hunter (Sr)'s elections - doubt it will do much harm for the Duncan Hunter (the younger.)
Censure this thief!
Honest to God…You can ‘threaten’ to check every Dem on Earth but you will DEFER on Hunter? I guess the days when you cared if you looked like craven monsters is over, right?
Poor fellow. I know the line is blurred when purchasing jewelry - is it personal? Is it a campaign expense? So hard to make the proper call.
And he seemed to face such challenges over $60,000 worth of items and services.
Again, poor boy…
If I trusted the Justice Department under Trump, I would applaud this as a good thing.
Another crooked Republican Congressman, but then, I repeat myself.
Oh…they’ve handed the mess to Jeff Sessions?
I feel so much better knowing that the ethics of Congress will FINALLY get cleaned up.
Shorter Duncan: What ethics problem? You KNOW I always intended to pay the money back if I got caught!
His attorneys, Elliot S. Berke and Gregory A. Vega, told NBC 7 San Diego, however, that Hunter “maintains that to the extent any mistakes were made they were strictly inadvertent and unintentional.”
Ha! And the Big Dog “inadvertently” had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinski. LOCK HIM UP!
No one in this district realizes he’s not the same person. I was at his “townhall” a few weeks ago which was held at a venue owned by one of the local Teaparty dingbats about as far away from the majority of his constituents as he could make it and still be in the district. He was a complete weasel and trotted out this line about his finance problems early and often. Duncan the Elder was a crook but he was a great deal smarter than Duncan the Younger. On the bright side he appears to be lazy as all get out and never does much of anything at all but collect his check and vote the party line. In that, he’s better than Issa who is a criminal and pure evil.
Duncan Hunter hit the trifecta ! He may have violated House rules,standards of conduct and federal law. I believe that may be a prerequisite for being a Republican officeholder. Got to love the Republicans.
Are you trying to imply that paying for $60,000 worth of oral surgery, a garage door, private school, gas, groceries, and fast food with campaign funds wasn’t strictly inadvertent and unintentional?
Five months ago this would have seemed like a huge scandal. Now it just seems quaint.
The voters seem to reward crooked pols by reelecting them over and over again. This guy repays 60k as soon as it came to light and his lawyer says it was all just a mistake. That is why legal and/or criminal actions must be taken against polliticians who violate the laws and ethics of their office.
Thanks for the context. Hope the combo of lazy and not so smart leads to an opening in this seat that isn’t named Duncan Hunter.
He just got the “nothing here!”. Certainly Sessions DoJ will investigate. Gag.
Yes, he inadvertently paid airfare for his bunny wabbit from his campaign funds. Ooops.
Cool, that’s just like my mistakes: They’re always inadvertent and unintentional.