Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), one of Israel’s
most strident critics in Congress, is reportedly under a federal
criminal investigation for misspending personal security funds.
The U.S. Department of Justice served the
House sergeant at arms, William McFarland, with a grand jury subpoena to
turn over related materials, McFarland informed the House on Monday. The requested documents apply to a criminal probe into Bush’s alleged misuse of funds, Punchbowl News reported on Tuesday.
A member of the so-called “Squad” of
left-wing progressives, Bush issued a statement on Tuesday confirming
that she is under investigation and denying that she had improperly used
any federal funds for her personal security detail.
“We are fully cooperating in this
investigation,” Bush said. “I am not entitled to personal protection by
the House and instead have used campaign funds as permissible to retain
security services. I have not used any federal tax dollars for personal
security services.”
She added that “right-wing organizations
have lodged baseless complaints against” her, prompting ongoing
investigations by the Federal Election Commission and the House
Committee on Ethics, alongside the Justice Department investigation.
The Justice Department has not issued a public statement on the matter.
Questions have circulated about Bush’s expenditures before.
In 2023, Fox News reported that she paid
her husband, who previously served as her campaign security guard, more
than $100,000 over two years. That’s in addition to more than $500,000
she has spent on private security since 2022.
Since the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the
Capitol, she has spent more on security than any other House member.
(Another security guard on her payroll, Nathaniel Davis, claims
to be a 109-trillion-year-old “Hebrew” and has endorsed antisemitic
conspiracy theories like the Rothschilds running “the Western
hemisphere.”)
The expenditures prompted complaints to the Office of Congressional Ethics; they were dismissed unanimously last year.
Bush has long been one of the most ardent
congressional critics of Israel. She has called the Jewish state
“apartheid” and has been particularly vocal in the wake of the Oct. 7
Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel.
Backed by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and
more than a dozen colleagues, Bush introduced a “Ceasefire Now”
resolution on Oct. 16.
Since then, Bush and Tlaib have supported
South Africa’s efforts to bring genocide charges against Israel at the
International Court of Justice in The Hague, the main judicial arm of
the United Nations.
“We welcome international accountability for the ongoing atrocities the Israeli government is perpetrating in Gaza,” the pair stated jointly on Friday, after the ICJ’s provisional ruling.
“The court overwhelmingly recognizes the
risk that the Israeli government could be committing genocide in Gaza
and believes immediate action is necessary to prevent further harm to
the Palestinian people, even as the case continues,” they added.
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CORI BUSH MAY HAVE STEPPED IN A BIG STEAMING PILE
By Bob Walsh
Cori Bush and her husband Cortney Merritts.
Cori Bush may have stepped in a big steaming pile of shit and been
caught at misappropriating federal funds.. It is possible her membership in THE SQUAD will not
insulate her very much.
Ms.
Bush claims to be in desperate need of personal security due to her
exalted position as one of the 435 members of congress. She is being
investigated by the federal DOJ for hanky panky with federal funds.
Ms.
Bush funneled large chunks of money to her boyfriend, now her husband,
to provide her with security services. It should be noted he is not
licensed to provide such services either in her home state of Missouri
or in D.C. His name is Cortney Merritts.
Ms.
Bush was a big-time BLM pimp and also a big proponent of defunding the
police. She asserts that she has used campaign funds for paying for
security and denies she has used any federal money for this use.
Ms.
Bush has spent $756,748.42 on security since 2018. Her personal salary
as a member of congress is about $175,000 per year, not counting any
graft she can pick up along the way.
A
federal grand jury is looking into it and there is still a
congressional internal investigation open into the matter. It should
also be noted that Ms. Bush, who is a fairly big Democrat-Socialist, is
being primaried in her home district of St. Louis. That is a VERY
unusual situation. It has led many to suggest that there is a pair of
shoes just covered in shit in the back of her closet and it is only a
matter of time until the stink permeates her campaign.
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