NEWS - Former Republican U.S. Secretary of Transportation accused of taking $50,000 from 'sprawling scheme' of illegal foreign campaign finance DIFFICULTY: Obama's Secretary of Transportation BUSTED: Former Transportation Secretary accused of taking $50,000 from 'sprawling scheme' of illegal foreign campaign finance https://www.rawstory.com/sprawling-scheme-illegal-campaign-donations/ On Wednesday, Axios reported that a former transportation secretary has been implicated in a foreign scheme that gave him $50,000 in illegal, undisclosed campaign contributions. "Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood took $50,000 from an associate of a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire at the center of a sprawling scheme of illegal foreign campaign contributions, federal prosecutors revealed Wednesday," reported Lachlan Markay. "The Justice Department detailed the illicit campaign donation scheme in a statement on Wednesday." LaHood, a former Illinois congressman, was one of the only Republicans to serve in former President Barack Obama's Cabinet. The donation reportedly took place while he was serving in that role. "According to a DOJ news release, LaHood's conduct was a 'separate and unrelated matter' from the campaign finance violations," continued the report. "The point of overlap was a Virginia businessman named Toufic Baaklini, who paid LaHood $50,000 in 2012, while he was in office. LaHood did not disclose the loan in ethics filings. According to prosecutors, LaHood 'understood at the time' that the money was actually coming from a Baalkini associate named Gilbert Chagoury, and 'made misleading statements to FBI agents' investigating the payment." (More at above url)
He's a Trumper, you fucking dope. Obama appointing the guy transpo-secy doesn't change that fact. https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/2...e-voted-against-trump-impeachment/4150278001/
Darin LaHood (the Congressman) is a different person than Ray LaHood (the former Obama Secretary of Transportation).
He's a Trumper you fucking dope. He was a GOP House Rep who served his first term in 1995. So perhaps Clinton is also responsible.
You better go also post all Ray's Tweets supporting Obama administration policy as well.... if you are going to label him as a Trumper for supporting the grounding of planes by the Trump administration. One Tweet on a transportation related issue suddenly makes the guy a Trumper? Yeah, whatever. Better that you confess that you attempted to say Darin LaHood (the Congressman) is the same person than Ray LaHood (the former Obama Secretary of Transportation). And admit your mistake.
The guy is a former GOP House Rep. Darin, or whatever, is his kid and another GOP House Rep. WTF cares that I posted a link to the wrong guy... both are POS GOP criminals. You're implying culpability for Obama bc it was politically beneficial to reach across the aisle? Perhaps we should blame Clinton for the guy making it to Congress. Are you denying the fact the Ray was a GOP Congressman? Or Darin? Go eat a hill of dicks, creep.
I would urge you to take a look at Ray LaHood's voting record before you label him as some sort of hard-core GOP politician. So much for the claims that Obama had no criminals in his administration.
Dude, you can paint him as an "Obama Democrat" but you're fucking deficient. He was a GOP member of Congress while Obama was in his 30s. Obama hadn't even began teaching at UC in 1995. Tells you something when the only one charged was the GOP appointee.