Gutierrez, who was first elected to Congress in 1993, brought his wife, Soraida Gutierrez, onto his campaign’s payroll six years ago to act as his office manager, treasurer, and fundraiser.
Soraida Gutierrez was a registered lobbyist in the state of Illinois from 2003 to 2009 before joining Gutierrez for Congress. She has since raked in more than $300,000 for her work on behalf of the committee while being the top recipient of campaign cash in three cycles since stepping into her role
Members of Congress have been allowed to place family on their campaign payrolls since 2001, when the Federal Election Commission issued an opinion at the request of former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D.,Ill).
Jackson went on to pay his wife’s firm hundreds of thousands of dollars from his own campaign committee. He and his wife pleaded guilty in 2013 to using $750,000 in campaign funds for personal use.
I am stunned. The very first sentence contained his party affiation
That’s a lot of pesos.
It’s all perfectly legal, this looting.
Feel the Bern!
We need MORE government running things instead of evil capitalists making evil profits.
Paul Ryan chooses good company to keep. No doubt.
I think I will be stunned !!!
Ah nepotism thy name on is demorat
Keep this in mind, as the meme that Trump is paying his own companies with campaign cash grows.
He’s paying for real services - like use of an airplane (with mostly money he loaned the campaign btw?), while most politicians just put family and cronies on the payroll in do nothing jobs.
That’s the way bribery is done now. A supposedly “independent” non-profit organization is created. A relative of the politician is made an “employee” and paid an outrageously large salary from the contributions. The same thing was done for Chelsea at the Clinton Foundation. She makes $800,000 a year for a job you could easily get someone to do for 50 or 60 thousand. (If she even does any work at all)
Reminds me of Biden charging SS agents rent.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/31/biden-charging-secret-service-cottage-rental/
If Mrs Gutierrez received $300k per year, that would be outrageous, the article makes it seem like $300k over the last five years, which would be $60k per year.
As detestable as he is, if it is the latter figure, you would have dig in and see if this was a “no show” job to demonstrate corruption.
Government office drones easily make $60k in Chicago. If she showed up and stuffed envelopes, or even just surfed the internet, you’d be hard pressed to damage Gutierrez on that alone.
This guy is an idiot. A measly 300 grand, this guy is clueless. He needs to talk with Hillary, her schemes start the bidding at $300 million, he is way behind the power curve.
Another corrupt Democrat.
The Politics Of Personal Profit strikes again!!
Luis came to power from the Latin Kings in Chicago, who had the ability to “get out the vote”.
Those who wonder why Chicago gangs aren’t eradicated can thank people like this who rely on gangs for a cut of the drug pie and their get out the vote influence.
And at the federal level, one can only assume that the world gangs (ISIS) deal the same way with our politicians.
They are bought and paid for by the enemies of the American people.
They are allowed to legally engage in insider trading, that should be all they need to get rich as Romney. How greedy must the be to just outright steal in addition to that advantage?