Posted on 02/28/2023 4:05:49 PM PST by Libloather
FIRST ON FOX: Missouri Democratic Rep. Cori Bush's campaign doled out $60,000 in private security payments last year to Cortney Merritts, who she quietly married earlier this month.
Merritts, however, pocketed the security payments despite not having a St. Louis private security license, which is needed to perform security functions in the area, Fox News Digital has discovered. Merritts also received the campaign's cash as it simultaneously paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a St. Louis security firm and another individual for personal protection.
Fox News Digital filed a public records request with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department on Monday morning seeking information regarding Merritts' private security license. In response, a Sunshine Law administrator said there are "no responsive records" relative to the request, and Merritts does not have a current license.
When asked if Merritts ever had a private security license, the administrator said that the "last security license issued to that individual expired in 2012."
The records search - which covered the city of St. Louis and its neighboring St. Louis County - encompasses Bush's entire congressional district. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan PD website: "With the exception of St. Louis Police Officers, all persons performing a security function in the City of St. Louis must be licensed to do so through the Private Security Section." Likewise, in St. Louis County, security officers must register with the same security section.
Merritts also does not appear in a database of licensed security professionals in the Washington, D.C. area, Fox News Digital confirmed with the city's Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection.
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What fool?,,,,Bush is don’t do as I do; Do as I say.
Hair hatted hooligan, gonna be a fool again.....
Nothing will ever happen to these people, they are protected.
Is this legal or ethical?
“Is this legal or ethical?”
It’s neither. She must have been advised by Maxine Waters or any of the other Satanic witches in Congress on how to enrich yourself on the People’s sweat.
It’s not legal if he’s missing required security credentials.
87,000 new IRS agents should be able to figure out if he reported the income...I’m betting no.
What dis she pay him with?
What will McCarthy do about it?
Graft, fraud, money laundering; all Democrat family values.
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