Posted on 07/06/2022 10:09:32 PM PDT by bitt
Sen. Raphael Warnock has been hit with allegations that he misused campaign funds to defend himself against a federal lawsuit stemming from his time as a pastor, according to a report out Wednesday.
Atlanta resident Melvin Robertson initially sued Warnock (D-Ga.) in 2019 over allegations dating back to 2005, when Warnock led the city’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. That suit was dismissed by a federal judge in Georgia without any of the defendants being served, Politico reported.
Robertson sued again in April 2021, making the same allegations against Warnock and naming the church and other public officials as defendants, the report said.
Warnock used his campaign lawyers from Elias Law Group to defend him in the case, along with Atlanta-based firm Krevolin & Horst.
According to the Federal Election Commission, campaign money can only be used on “litigation expenses where the candidate/officeholder was the defendant and the litigation arose directly from campaign activity or the candidate’s status as a candidate.”
“The rationale for this prohibition is to honor the campaign contributors’ intent that their contributions be used for political purposes and not, for example, to relieve the candidate of a personal obligation,” Caleb Burns, an attorney who specializes in election law, told Politico.
Warnock campaign officials have said they believed they were free to use the funds because the lawsuit was filed while Warnock was a senator — and served at his Senate office in the Georgia capital.
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The Way of His People.
The lawsuit itself might be gibberish and meritless
He’s black and a Democrat...nothing to see here, move along.
He could cite Bill Clinton as a precedent; Clinton used about 100 government lawyers pulled from various agencies plus about 100 “pro-bono” lawyers paid through the back door to fight impeachment. The argument could be something like “Democrat, any means necessary, etc, etc.”
He is a criminal commie. You think campaign regulations matter to him?
He de black hero a Georgia. No one be stoppin’ him.( sarc.)
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