Number-one Trumpster a fraudster

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Just like the Fraudster-in-Chief, shit-for-brains shabbos goy Donnie-Boy, the first Republican Congressman to endorse him is also a fraudster.

...New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins has been charged with securities fraud, wire fraud and false statements, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

Collins, who was the first sitting member of Congress to endorse Trump's presidential bid

New York Republican congressman indicted on insider trading charges
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/08/politics/chris-collins-indicted-insider-trading/index.html

Washington (CNN)New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins has been charged with securities fraud, wire fraud and false statements, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

Collins, who was the first sitting member of Congress to endorse Trump's presidential bid, surrendered this morning at his attorney's office in Manhattan, according to the FBI.
Attorneys for Collins said in a statement that they "will answer the charges filed against Congressman Collins in Court and will mount a vigorous defense to clear his good name."

"It is notable that even the government does not allege that Congressman Collins traded a single share of Innate (Immunotherapeutics) stock. We are confident he will be completely vindicated and exonerated," the statement continued.

The House Ethics Committee last October revealed that it was investigating Collins, for potentially violating federal law and House rules regarding insider trading. The outside, non-partisan Office of Congressional Ethics began a review of Collins' activity in March 2017 and voted to send its findings to the House ethics panel that July, which can formally launch investigations and recommend any sanctions against any lawmaker it determines has broken any rules. The ethics committee announced in the release of the report that it would start a review of Collins.

The report details how Collins met with officials at the National Institutes of Health to discuss the development of a drug made by Innate, a company whose board he served on.

"There is a substantial reason to believe that Representative Collins shared material nonpublic information in the purchase of Innate stock, in violation of House rules, standards of conduct, and federal law," according to the report by the non-partisan ethics office, released by the Ethics Committee last fall.

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Another Trumpster indicted for corruption.

GOP Congressman, Early Trump Backer Duncan Hunter Indicted
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gop-congressman-early-trump-backer-duncan-hunter-indicted

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and his wife have been indicted for misusing $250,000 in campaign funds and filing false campaign finance documents.

The indictment comes after a yearlong Justice Department investigation into whether the congressman and early supporter of President Trump illegally misused campaign funds for personal reasons. He and his wife Margaret, who also served as his campaign manager, are accused of routinely using campaign money to pay to fly his pet rabbit back and forth from his district, as well as for dental work, multiple vacations including one to Italy, and heavy spending at restaurants.

The charges: Conspiracy to enrich themselves by using campaign funds "for their own personal benefit," even though campaign staffers warned them that they were violating the law.

Hunter has reimbursed his campaign more than $65,000 already, but maintained that he didn't commit any crimes, and his lawyers had previously described the lavish spending of campaign funds as "inadvertent and unintentional."

Hunter was the second House Republican to endorse President Trump, and this indictment means that Trump's two earliest House backers have now been indicted following Rep. Chris Collins' (R-NY) own, separate legal troubles.

The indictment could put Hunter's normally safely Republican seat in jeopardy this fall. President Trump won the San Diego-area district, which is one of the most conservative in the state, by 15 percentage points. But Democrats are excited about their candidate, former Obama administration official Ammar Campa-Najjar, and believe that with the indictment the seat could be in play.

Republicans leaders moved quickly to contain the damage, removing Hunter from his committee assignments.

"The charges against Rep. Hunter are deeply serious. The Ethics Committee deferred its investigation at the request of the Justice Department. Now that he has been indicted, Rep. Hunter will be removed from his committee assignments pending the resolution of this matter," House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said in a Tuesday night statement.