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Washington Lawmakers Use Campaign Funds to Pay Relatives! Email Print

With what is going on in Washington it is not surprising that lawlessness has become so pervasive throughout the United States.

Matt Kelley in U.S.A. Today revealed what some lawmakers are doing with their campaign funds:

"Seventy-two members of the House of Representatives spent $5.1 million in campaign funds to pay relatives' companies or their relatives' employers during the past six years, a liberal watchdog group says in a report.

"Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (C.R.E.W.) found nearly 35 million in campaign payments to relatives during the past three election cycles from 2001 to 2006 campaigns and about $1.6 million to firms owned by its employing the lawmakers of their relatives, the group found."

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