Between the two groups, the filing said, Taub raised $1.6 million. One married couple gave his groups a whopping $1,275,000, per the filing. Taub “converted” more than $1,000,000 of the money raised “to personal use,” the filing alleged, and used the money for “international and domestic air travel, hotels, restaurants, clothing, cigars, adult entertainment, and escort services.”
Yes, what could be more personal than pornography and hookers ?
Mr. Taub does not screw around with thin veneers. He goes straight to the grift.
Looks like a young Blake Fahrentold AKA pajamaguy,
Why does you opening sentence name an innocent person of a different party and not the actual criminal? Change this NOW!
Ex-GOP Candidate To Plead Guilty After Allegedly Bilking Donors For Cigars, Escorts
Great!
Now do Duncan “Rabbit Air Fare” Hunter.
Are the Russians, Ukrainians, Saudis involved in every crooked political story?
For rethugs grifting is the norm.
No grift too small.
I agree: I had to read it several times before I caught the apostrophe S in David’s last name: A horribly written opening paragraph and doesn’t mention who the prig is until paragraph two.
Could not agree more, The opening sentence could easily be construed as a slander on Rep. David Cicilline. TPM and Matt Shuham need to offer profound and very public apologies to Rep. Cicilline.
So, wait. This kind of thing is illegal? Who knew?
Always appropriate…
What? You mean hookers and blow aren’t tax-deductible?! I thought this was America, goddammit!
Now there’s a man with a world-class sneer. Give him a bowtie and a daytime slot at Fox!
One married couple gave his groups a whopping $1,275,000, per the filing.
Who ever this couple is has too much money anyway.
Mark Harris apparently doesn’t think we should be holding people like Taub accountable for their crimes. I mean, he was only 27 when he committed this fraud (though probably not as smart for his age as John Harris).
"One married couple gave his groups a whopping $1,275,000, per the filing. "
What were they expecting from him if he won?
As soon as you hear about escorts you know what the problem was: over-patriotism.
GINGRICH: There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate. And what I can tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn’t trapped in situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them.
Yeah I want to know which Ukrainians Steve King and Taub were gittin jiggy wit.