'Squad' member RepCori is facing a second ethics complaint over her campaign paying a security guard who is now her husband. The FEC is investigating whether Bush violated federal law by paying her husband, Cortney Merritts, $60,000 in campaign funds.
"Squad" Rep. Cori Bush is facing a second ethics complaint over her campaign paying a security guard who is now her husband.
"Her criminal act — unlawful in both Washington, D.C., and her own district — isn’t just an FEC matter; the Department of Justice and the Office of Congressional Ethics should also investigate Bush’s utter disregard for the law. That’s why the Committee to Defeat the President not only filed a more in-depth FEC complaint, detailing her precise criminal violations, but also sent the details to the DOJ and OCE," Backer added.
Both FACT and the Committee to Defeat the President harped on the fact that her husband does not have a private security license in St. Louis County or the city of St. Louis, which comprises Bush's congressional district. While Merritts collected regular checks typically totaling $2,500 each, Bush's campaign paid PEACE Security, a St. Louis company, over $225,000 for personal protection, filings show.
"It is highly unlikely Bush's former lover and now husband, who is not licensed to provide security services and runs a moving company, provided $5,000 worth of security services for Bush every month throughout 2022, authentically bolstering the protection provided by the Capitol Police and the $225,000 of protection provided by PEACE Security ," the Committee to Defeat the President wrote in its complaint.
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