Posted on 02/22/2021 8:37:27 AM PST by Red Badger
Rep. Deb Haaland failed to report nearly a third of her 2018 earnings, according to newly amended ethics report.
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The Democratic congresswoman named by President Biden to be the next interior secretary failed to disclose on her House ethics report $16,000 in casino salary that made up more than a third of her income in 2018 when she first won her congressional seat, according to an amended report she filed as her nomination was being vetted.
Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), who would be America's first Native American cabinet secretary if her nomination is approved, faces a confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Republicans such as Sen. Steve Daines of Montana are expected to grill Haaland about her relative lack of management experience and her views on the environment and energy, which they have labeled as radical.
The change that Haaland made on her 2018 congressional ethics form last month may open another avenue of inquiry for Republicans.
Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo Nation in New Mexico, has been one of the most modestly earning members in Congress since she joined in January 2019.
The financial disclosure form she filed for interior secretary shows she had no income in 2020 beyond her congressional salary and a $175 distribution payment from her tribe. She also reported owning no assets, and carrying up to $50,000 in student loan debts, a balance sheet dwarfed by those of the preponderance of members of Congress, the majority of whom are millionaires.
File NomineeDisclosure-Haaland.pdf After she joined Congress in 2019, Haaland reported on her House ethics form dated May 13, 2019 that her only source of income in 2018 was $30,550 as an independent contractor for her tribe’s Laguna Development Corp. She also listed no liabilities on the form.
File Haaland2019Original.pdf But on Jan. 5 of this year, she quietly filed an amendment to the 2019 form adding $16,000 in "salary" from the San Felipe Casino, a gambling outlet near Santa Fe run by the San Felipe Pueblo. The casino recently changed its name to Black Mesa Casino.
File Haaland2019Amend.pdf The amendment also listed student loan debts of between $15,001 and $50,000 that were not on her 2019 form.
Spokespeople for Haaland, Daines and Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the ranking Republican on the committee, did not immediately return emails or calls seeking comment .
$16,000 was one third of her income?
Just an oversite, Republicans will vote yes.
Even though there were some mistakes made, they did not meet the standard of criminal intent...........(the first standard of criminal intent is that one must be a Republican ).
Has a cabinet nominee ever been allowed to amend their tax returns?
Nice work if you can get it......................
Will be overlooked. Different standards for dems.
Congress has ethics? Who knew? I would love to see the scale of Worst to Least of unethical behavior by CongressCritters.
* Congressional salary
* $175 distribution payment from her tribe
* No assets
* $50,000 in student loan debts
Yet she will leave Congress after 30 years worth $50 million. She sure has the necessary Democrat qualifications.
Haaland is an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo and a 35th-generation New Mexican.
A few observations / questions:
1. Allotting 20 years per generation, that would mean that Haaland can trace her ancestry back to A.D. 1320. Do courthouse records stretch that far back?
2. New Mexico (Nuevo México) as a territorial designation didn't exist until 1598.
3. What were the names of her great-great-(31x)-grandmother and -father?
Regards,
Engaged in traditional Native occupations such as hunting, gathering, cigarette smuggling, high stakes bingo...
I’m guessing that Trump told her not to report that income. What other reason could there be?
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Scalping Americans.........................
> Allotting 20 years per generation, that would mean that Haaland can trace her ancestry back to A.D. 1320. Do courthouse records stretch that far back? <
They don’t. But Haaland has the next best thing. She has a certificate signed by Elizabeth Warren herself.
Standardized Democrook behavior. If they didn’t cheat, lie, steal and abuse women they would be kicked out of the Democrat National Criminal party.
Steve Martin advised how best to deal with income, reporting and tax issues....simply say, “I Forgot.”
I remember in “Goodfellas” when Paulie tells Henry that if anyone asks where he got his ill-gotten gains, to say he won it gambling.
86 this mamma dog parasitic demorrhoid dimbicile......spit
Wondered why democrats have dice hanging from the car mirror.
Just a boo-boo.....the left skates again.
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