COVID Fraud Squad Slaps Criminal Charges On Husband Of AOC’s ‘Squad’ Co-Belligerent
Maybe this explains why Dems were in no hurry to audit the misappropriated COVID dollars
With COVID fraud numbers so high that they beggar the imagination, you might expect that politicians would want to see the fraudsters get caught, and money clawed back.
There was SOME work in that regard, but maybe you noticed that other than some lip service to the question, getting answers for where the money REALLY went never quite seemed to be huge priority for the political class.
Nobody could have predicted the appearance of DOGE, as it is currently running, to show up on the scene and spot the sort of complicated webs of deceit that are specifically spun to make forensic audits almost impossible to follow. Algorithms can the movement of numbers with a speed and clarity that people cannot. Money is just another kind of number that it’s tracking.
Since DOGE came to town, it has been said that one of the safest bets in the whole process is that there will be close family, business, or romantic connections between the politicians putting a pen to the wasteful policy, and the politicians cashing in on it.
Enter Cori Bush, the former Congresswoman — and member of AOC’s so-called ‘Squad’– whose husband is being charged with misuse of pandemic money.
The husband of former U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, a Missouri Democrat, has been charged with defrauding the government after allegedly accepting $20,000 in payments from the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection and Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs, the Justice Department said.
Cortney Merritts, 46, of St. Louis, falsified details about his purported businesses to obtain loans from the Small Business Administration in 2020 and 2021, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
He was charged with two counts of wire fraud. —FoxNews
Isn’t interesting that someone who had ZERO interest in giving people like Trump, the J6 defendants, Kyle Rittenhouse, or Brett Kavanaugh the presumption of innocence will now insist on having that bedrock principle applied to the allegations her husband now faces.
There’s a reason the left is losing. They keep thinking people like her represent their future.