geomancer
11-11-2012, 08:30 AM
[Double billing your allies? say it ain't so Ron]
https://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/2012/11/10/ron-paul-corrupt/
[see also: https://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/page/-/PDFs/Reports/Most%20Corrupt%20Reports/CREW-Most-Corrupt-Members-of-Congress-Report-2012.pdf?nocdn=1 ]
Ron Paul: Corrupt
https://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/wp-content/themes/BlueFTB/images/date.png November 10, 2012 at 9:41 am https://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/wp-content/themes/BlueFTB/images/user.png Ashley F. Miller
https://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/files/2012/11/26028055.jpg
Ron Paul, hero of wackaloons everywhere, was just determined to be one of the most corrupt (https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/09/12/ron-paul-one-of-the-most-corrupt-members-of-congress-report-finds) Congressmen according to a new report (https://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/page/-/PDFs/Reports/Most%20Corrupt%20Reports/CREW-Most-Corrupt-Members-of-Congress-Report-2012.pdf?nocdn=1) from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The report says Paul “double-billed” his travel expenses a number of times over the last decade, meaning he may have been reimbursed for the same flights both under his official allowance as congressman, and by either non-profit groups under his control or his campaign committee.The revelation would be ironic in part because Paul made fiscal responsibility a central tenet of his 2012 presidential campaign. The congressman celebrated a major victory in July when his bill to audit the Federal Reserve for greater transparency passed the House.
Apparently Roll Call (https://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_90/Records-Show-Ron-Paul-Trips-Paid-Twice-212118-1.html) has been on the Paul double-billing money-making scheme since last February, but apparently people have been noticing since 2004. Paul and his team, unsurprisingly, have not responded. Paul was getting money from both the official allowance given to him by Congress and by Liberty Committee, the libertarian group which is run by one of his relatives but parted ways with Paul in 2006.Now, if cronyism and self-paychecks are his deal, that is what it is, but it seems rather absurd that he would then also make the American people give him money for no reason.
“It’s extremely disappointing,” Liberty Committee President David James told Whispers of the double-billing.
James and the Liberty committee apparently first noticed 8 years ago, when Paul didn’t provide copies of his travel tickets — at which point Paul stopped billing them, apparently realizing he was caught or going to be. 60% of his travel was double billed, the committee discovered when they did an audit.
“We have contacted Congressman Paul to look at the records and repay the amount,” James told Whispers. “But our last communication was not even responded to.”
Despite the money he owes them and the fact that they aren’t working together, Liberty Committee still supports Ron Paul as the bringer of the best message in politics — probably because they’ve had the Kool-Aid.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/2012/11/10/ron-paul-corrupt/
[see also: https://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/page/-/PDFs/Reports/Most%20Corrupt%20Reports/CREW-Most-Corrupt-Members-of-Congress-Report-2012.pdf?nocdn=1 ]
Ron Paul: Corrupt
https://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/wp-content/themes/BlueFTB/images/date.png November 10, 2012 at 9:41 am https://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/wp-content/themes/BlueFTB/images/user.png Ashley F. Miller
https://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/files/2012/11/26028055.jpg
Ron Paul, hero of wackaloons everywhere, was just determined to be one of the most corrupt (https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/09/12/ron-paul-one-of-the-most-corrupt-members-of-congress-report-finds) Congressmen according to a new report (https://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/page/-/PDFs/Reports/Most%20Corrupt%20Reports/CREW-Most-Corrupt-Members-of-Congress-Report-2012.pdf?nocdn=1) from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The report says Paul “double-billed” his travel expenses a number of times over the last decade, meaning he may have been reimbursed for the same flights both under his official allowance as congressman, and by either non-profit groups under his control or his campaign committee.The revelation would be ironic in part because Paul made fiscal responsibility a central tenet of his 2012 presidential campaign. The congressman celebrated a major victory in July when his bill to audit the Federal Reserve for greater transparency passed the House.
Apparently Roll Call (https://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_90/Records-Show-Ron-Paul-Trips-Paid-Twice-212118-1.html) has been on the Paul double-billing money-making scheme since last February, but apparently people have been noticing since 2004. Paul and his team, unsurprisingly, have not responded. Paul was getting money from both the official allowance given to him by Congress and by Liberty Committee, the libertarian group which is run by one of his relatives but parted ways with Paul in 2006.Now, if cronyism and self-paychecks are his deal, that is what it is, but it seems rather absurd that he would then also make the American people give him money for no reason.
“It’s extremely disappointing,” Liberty Committee President David James told Whispers of the double-billing.
James and the Liberty committee apparently first noticed 8 years ago, when Paul didn’t provide copies of his travel tickets — at which point Paul stopped billing them, apparently realizing he was caught or going to be. 60% of his travel was double billed, the committee discovered when they did an audit.
“We have contacted Congressman Paul to look at the records and repay the amount,” James told Whispers. “But our last communication was not even responded to.”
Despite the money he owes them and the fact that they aren’t working together, Liberty Committee still supports Ron Paul as the bringer of the best message in politics — probably because they’ve had the Kool-Aid.