• buycurious@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The payments to the couple went through a Texas-based shell company owned by Imelda Cuellar and two of the couple’s children, according to the indictment. That company received payments from the Azerbaijan energy company of $25,000 per month under a “sham contract,” purportedly in exchange for unspecified strategic consulting and advising services.

    Sounds like bribery to me.

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      Even if it was consulting, why would you, as a US Representative, be able to consult for a foreign country?

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      And literally a month or so before RvW got over turned. Pelosi personally went and campaigned for him in his primary. He won by somewhere within a single percentage point if I recall correctly.

      He’s one of the few openly anti-choice democrats left.

      Something else to note is that Hakeem Jeffries was Pelosi’s acolyte who she helped take her place. So when people were talking about him being a “new generation” you know it’s bullshit. He’s there to stop party reform to the left/center, same as Pelosi was.

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    Well this isn’t a surprise for anybody that knows anything about him. He’s always been a piece of crap.