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Campaign Cash In Out
It sounds like Déjà vu all over again. We’ll call it the Fani Willis effect. A Black female public official funneling money to her lover. The Department of Justice is investigating U.S. Rep Cory Bush, (D) Missouri. Rep Bus is part of a group on Capitol Hill called the “Squad.” The campaign money fraud case against the insipid Cori Bush could amount to an acute perception.
The DOJ has accused Rep Cori Bush of using campaign funds to hire her boyfriend/husband as her personal bodyguard. Bush is a Democrat and Biden supporter. However, it is common knowledge that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland focuses on prosecuting Joe Biden’s opponents.
Rep Bush Trying To Shame Garland
As a card-carrying squad member, you must register as a grandstanding loudmouth. On Tuesday, Bush called a press conference to announce that she was under DOJ investigation.
“I have used campaign funds as is permissible to retain security services,” Bush said. She did not attend church like Fani Willis to plead her case to the sister girl committee. Because of Rep Bush’s constant cry for attention, she gave Republican detractors ammunition to use against her.
Rep Red Neck Nehls (Left) With Rep Cori Bush (Right)
Republican Troy Nehls went as far as to unjustifiably attacking Rep Bush’s husband, Courtney Merritts. Rep Nehls called the U.S. Army veteran a thug with no knowledge of him — other than he is Black.
Rep Nehls questioned why Rep Bush was paying for protection, using the term paying “thug money,” referring to Bush’s husband. Rep Bush could have defended herself by stating that she needed protection from historical lynching bigots like Rep Troy Nehls. Nehls is also an Army veteran and former Fort Bend, Texas, Sheriff.
While Rep Nehls is a redneck, he rightly described Rep Cori Bush as loud. Some people are just boisterous. She happens to be one of them. It’s not a crime. Some find It’s distasteful.
Rep Bush’s Husband, Courtney Merritts: the D.O.J. Looking Into Payments He Received
Bush continued her public defense on the steps of the Capitol. “As a rank and file member of Congress, I’m not entitled to personal protection by the House.” I have not used any federal dollars for personal security services.”
Rep Bush has been paying her husband Courtney Merritts $ 5,000 monthly for personal protection. The Office of Congressional Ethics investigated the campaign funds payments and closed the case without penalties.
Rep Bush said, “The nature of these allegations has been around my husband’s role on the campaign. She continued, “By applicable rules, I have retained my husband as part of my security team.”
The Federal Election Commission also investigated Rep Bush’s campaign spending and may have referred the case to the DOJ.
The DOJ also is investigating New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell.
Mayor Cantrell is under a cloud of suspicion for allegedly having an affair with her bodyguard, Jeffery Vappie, in the city-owned apartment while on duty. Vappie’s wife dropped a dime on the horny pair.
A recent Daily Mail report claims the FBI has several hours of security camera footage of Vappie and Cantrell together.
The DOJ is also investigating Mayor Cantrell on allegations of corruption. They have phone communications between Cantrell and another of her associates, Zeton. In some recordings, Cantrell appeared to be “indirectly asking businessman Fouad Zeton for money or favors.”
Vappie is the head of Mayor Cantrell’s police security detail.
According to Vappie’s wife, he and the mayor have been having an affair since May 2021, which is when he started working for Cantrell.
For her defense, Cantrell drew parallels between herself and other Black mayors of New Orleans. “At a recent news conference (with WWL-TV), she hinted at a racial animus toward the federal inquiry, saying that being subjected to investigation “seems to be prevalent relative to Black leadership.
As reported by NOLA. I am not exempt from that.” She reminded reporters of Mayor Ray Nagin. That is a great defense–New Orleans’ corrupt mayor. “In 2014, Ray Nagin was convicted on twenty-one charges of wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering.
In an interview Thursday with WWL-TV, she expanded on those sentiments, saying she drew on “lessons…of the past, specifically with African-Americans in leadership in our city. And as you get into that last term, this seems to be a practice and one that I’m experiencing firsthand as well.” Mayor Cantrell wants to “Hit ‘Em Up,” Blu Cantrell Style.
Garland needs to show he prosecutes not only Republicans. What better way to prove his story than to add some Democrats under his prosecutorial belt? It took the DOJ years to pretend finally to reel in Hunter Biden. And when Hunter Biden shows up to court, he sticks a middle finger in their eyes.
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