Duncan Hunter couldn't afford daughter's dance lessons, spent campaign funds on trip to competitions

[Demovictory9]

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-12/prosecutors-ask-court-to-disqualify-new-defense-attorney-for-rep-duncan-hunter-citing-conflict-of-interest

SAN DIEGO — A new court filing by prosecutors in the case against Rep. Duncan Hunter says the lawmaker was warned as early as 2010 that he and his wife were breaking the law by improperly spending campaign funds.
The filing says they bought a camera with which to take family vacation pictures and tried listing the expenditure as ink, paper and software for the office. They also spent campaign money on a trip to his daughter’s Irish dance competition in Phoenix because they couldn’t afford it, the filing states.

At one point, the filing said, a former treasurer threatened to quit if Hunter didn’t take the campaign credit card away from his wife.
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Browning testified before the grand jury that, among other things, Hunter did not have enough personal funds to pay for basic necessities, that Hunter’s personal finances were so poor he could not afford to pay for his daughter’s dance lessons, that Hunter recognized he could not use campaign funds for social activities and that “Hunter traveled to Phoenix in January 2016 for his daughter’s Irish dance competition and visited Browning to ‘take a look at [his] retirement place’ — but did not discuss any campaign business.”

According to a footnote in the court filing, “At the time of the trip, Hunter reported to his chief of staff that he timed the trip so that he could hold a campaign ‘meeting with a (charity event) coordinator’ in Arizona.

“Campaign records demonstrate that Hunter used at least $632 in campaign funds to pay for this social visit to Phoenix,” the footnote said.

[oasis]

1. Grifter. Duncan's as corrupt as they come.

[RockRaven]

2. I will be shocked if Hun-turd Jr gets acquitted... BUT...

I won't be shocked if there is a hung jury. It only takes one "I don't believe my lying eyes and ears" MAGAt out of 12 jurors to generate a mistrial.

The evidence -- as presented in the news media anyway -- is damning as hell, though.

[Tanuki]

3. Also couldn't afford wining and dining his numerous mistresses, spent campaign funds on them as well

https://www.google.com/amp/s/lawandcrime.com/opinion/we-just-learned-some-details-about-duncan-hunter-none-of-them-look-good-for-him-or-his-wife/amp/

...."The DOJ is seeking permission from the court to admit evidence of a highly-personal nature that it calls “essential to demonstrate that his spending to facilitate [extramarital affairs] was improper.” The DOJ’s motion lists five women, “Individuals 14-18,” who were lobbysts, staffers, and aides; Hunter entertained these women with everything from dinners to ski vacations to golf outings – and all the Uber rides in between. Each time, the campaign paid, and as the court docs put it, “carrying out all these affairs did not come cheap.”...(more)

[Judi Lynn]

4. Wonder if he learned any of this grifting from his slimy old father, Hunter Sr. He's an ass, too. nt