Rashida Tlaib Paid Herself $45,500 From Campaign Funds

Freshman Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) paid herself tens of thousands of dollars from her campaign's funds during the midterm elections, filings with the Federal Election Commission show. Tlaib, who was elected to the House last November, began paying herself on May 7, 2018, from Rashida Tlaib for Congress, her campaign committee, and averaged $4,000 per month outside of August, which included two checks of $3,000 each. From May 7 until the general election on Nov. 6, Tlaib paid herself a total of $28,000 in payments from the campaign committee, which first-time candidates are permitted to do up until the day of the general election if they so choose. "If the candidate wins the primary election, his or her principal campaign committee may pay him or her a salary from campaign funds through the date of the general election, up to and including the date of any general election runoff," FEC provisions state. "If the candidate loses the primary, withdraws from the race, or otherwise ceases to be a candidate, no salary payments may be paid beyond the date he or she is no longer a candidate." An FEC spokesperson said that a candidate can pay themselves after the general election only for activity that occurred up to the day of the election. Following the general election, Tlaib cut herself a $2,000 check on Nov. 16 and disbursed $15,500 to herself on Dec. 1, which was well above the average of what she was paying herself during the campaign.

"On its face, it looks like the $2,000 payment on November 16 might be for the candidate's salary for the first two weeks of November," an election law and government ethics lawyer told the Free Beacon when asked about the payments. "But given that the election occurred on November 6—i.e., part-way through the first November pay period—I am surprised that this last payment wasn't prorated. In other words, Tlaib stopped being a candidate halfway through this period, but it appears that she kept collecting her full salary as if she was still a candidate throughout the full first two weeks of November." "The $15,500 payment is interesting. It's not 100% clear what she's doing, but what she may have done is to low ball her earlier payments for political purposes (at $2k), knowing full well that she would make up any difference at the end by giving herself a lump sum payment," the lawyer continued. "That would let her skirt negative publicity, of the sort that Alan Keyes generated when he paid himself a sizable salary. An after-the-fact, lump sum payment cuts against the purpose of the rule, which is to help the candidate pay for daily living expenses while campaigning." Tlaib's campaign did not respond to requests for comment on the payments.

During the campaign, Tlaib said that she had taken a leave of absence from her job at the Sugar Law Center, a Detroit-based economic and social justice organization, and cut her hours down to seven per week. The now-congresswoman was paid $28,712.79 from the law center up until May of last year—when the payments from the campaign started—and collected $42,500 salary in 2017, according to her financial disclosure forms. Tlaib also reported a $68,307 salary for a "Leadership in Government Fellowship" in 2017 but did not disclose the name of the organization who provided the funding for the fellowship, as required by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ethics. The Washington Free Beacon reached out to George Soros's spokesperson in December and were provided copies of tax forms for all entities that are run by the liberal billionaire and make up his Open Society network. On page 97 of the 321-page tax form for the Open Society Institute, the legal name for the Open Society Foundation, an expenditure of $85,307 is shown to Tlaib for a "leadership in government fellowship," the Free Beacon reported. The amount that Soros's group reported paying out to Tlaib on its tax forms, $85,307, differs from the amount Tlaib reported on her financial disclosure—$68,307—for her leadership in government fellowship. "Rashida Tlaib was awarded a Leadership in Government fellowship from the Open Society Foundations in the fall of 2016," Jonathan Kaplan, Soros's spokesperson, told the Free Beacon at the time. "Her project: to focus on increasing the civic participation of disenfranchised urban communities of color. When Ms. Tlaib informed us that she was planning to run for Congress, we mutually agreed to suspend her fellowship and no further payments were made."

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>>5457739

Its actually more if you read through the entire article, she over reported what she was paid by Soros… on financial disclosures

Thousands of kids have been sexually abused at U.S. migrant shelters, feds say

Thousands of migrant children have been sexually abused while being detained at U.S. government-run shelters, according to Department of Health and Human Services documents. The data — which was released Tuesday by Florida Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch during a Judicial Committee hearing on the Trump administration’s child separation policy — shows that more than 1,000 allegations of sexual abuse of unaccompanied minors were reported to the Office of Refugee Resettlement every fiscal year since 2015. The allegations include rape, sexual assault and harassment, according to the data. The news was first reported by CBS News.

In total, the documents show that 4,556 sexual abuse complaints were reported to the resettlement agency between October 2014 and July 2018; 1,303 complaints were also filed with the Department of Justice between fiscal years 2015 and 2018. It’s still unclear if any of those complaints are duplicates and how many occurred at the Homestead temporary shelter for unaccompanied minors. Representatives of the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Department of Justice were not available for comment Friday night.

Very little information was provided as to who the allegations were against. Bit and pieces of very blurred and overly photocopied narratives were provided to Deutch’s office detailing just 56 of the thousands of allegations in 2017 and 2018. When a Herald reporter asked a Deutch spokesman for better electronic copies, in an email he said “Unfortunately, that’s the issue — these files were delivered to Congress [by Health and Human Services] in hard-copy format, not in quality digital format. We are also barely able to read the files.”

In the fragments of the files that can be deciphered, some cases include instances where young girls were groped on the buttocks and some boys were touched on the groin. One case detailed a late-night worker kissing a girl on the lips. Another case said a girl was raped by her government-issued foster father. In another case, a minor reported having sex with a staff member at least four times. Other cases involved workers showing minors porn or becoming romantically involved with teens. In many instances, cases weren’t “substantiated” or investigated. In others, the perpetrators were either reassigned, put on administrative leave, terminated or “reinstated.” “These HHS documents detail a staggering number of sexual assaults on unaccompanied children in their custody,” Deutch said during Tuesday’s Judiciary Committee hearing. “Together, these documents detail an unsafe environment of sexual assaults by staff on unaccompanied minors. … Clearly this Administration is not equipped to keep these children safe inside their facilities. Congress and the public demand answers and a clearer understanding of how these allegations are being investigated and what is being done to protect these vulnerable children.” In response, Commander Jonathan D. White of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, a branch of Health and Human Services, lashed out at Deutch for mischaracterizing the data. “Those are not HHS staff in any of those allegations, that statement is false,” White said, emphasizing that he had warned the administration about the potential harm of separating families before Trump’s zero tolerance policy was enacted. “Best available evidence is that separation of children from parents entails very significant and potential lifelong risks of psychological and physical harm,” White said.

Deutch clarified what he observed in the documents: “I saw thousands of sexual assault cases, if not by HHS staff then by the people that HHS staff oversees. I will make that clarification. It doesn’t make what happened any less horrific.” He continued: “It was the administration obligated to help keep these kids safe. We failed, and this is just the start of what I believe to be a very important series of questions that this administration must answer. The Office of Refugee Resettlement began compiling data on sexual abuse in regards to unaccompanied minors in its custody since October 2014, the entity department said in a memo. Per its policy, care providers must report allegations of sexual abuse, sexual harassment, inappropriate sexual behavior and retaliation “immediately but no later than four hours after learning of the allegation.”

During the committee hearing Department of Justice, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol leaders were grilled by Democrats who called the policy “immoral” and “inhumane.” Republicans lamented the “crisis” at the border but said “something must be done.”

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article227009559.html#storylink=cpy

>>5458065

Wrong equation anon the math is 3+14