A new court filing by prosecutors in the case against Rep. Duncan Hunter says the lawmaker and his wife spent campaign money on a trip to his daughter’s Irish dance competition in Phoenix because they couldn’t afford it
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.
Reached by phone Monday, Pfingst said in response to the filing, “I think Congressman Hunter should be allowed to pick his lawyer, rather than the prosecution picking his lawyer. According to the motion prosecutors filed Monday, Rice has represented since March 2017 three government witnesses: Bruce Young, Sheila Hardison and Joseph Browning.
Prosecutors said Young testified that he told Hunter that Margaret was spending too much money on items that would raise a red flag with the election commission, and that Young threatened to leave his post with the campaign if Hunter did not take away his wife’s campaign credit card.
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...
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