Looks Like Marjorie Taylor Greene May Have Broken The Law Again

Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene might be in trouble after it was revealed that she appeared in an ad soliciting donations for a Super PAC back in December. Candidates are not allowed to coordinate with Super PACs, and they are extremely limited in the amount of money they are allowed to solicit for them. This adds to existing legal problems facing Greene, which Farron Cousins explains.

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Oh, looks like Republican representative Marjorie Taylor green may have broken the law

Again.

This latest round of potential law breaking, uh, came late last week when it was reported that Taylor green all the way back in December had actually cut an ad for a super pack. Um, the super pack by the way, was stopped socialism now pack. So she cut an ad for them that ran in the state of Georgia, talking about the runoff races, uh, with Leffler and Purdue, where they both got their butts handed to them. Uh, but she was raising money. She appeared in the ad specifically raising money for the super pack for

These two races. And that, depending on which legal scholar you ask is illegal, or it's not illegal. Now

It is illegal for a candidate to coordinate with a super pack in their race that you can't do that. But in other races where you're not the person running, there is a little bit, and this is why campaign finance laws are so ridiculous. There's a little bit of cooperation allowed. She can appear in the ad, but she can't solicit funds. And if she does solicit funds, even though she's not allowed to, it says you can't solicit more than $5,000. So you can't solicit. But if you do, it's okay. As long as it's not over $5,000, this is literally the law folks. Like you can check the link in the description to this ProPublica, a piece like that's how it works. And of course left not left or excuse me, green raised way more than $5,000 off these ads. And that's where legal scholars very, they say, well, we don't know if it means 5,000 total or 5,000 from each individual. So if you go through and find any Republican or donor, I guess it would be that gave more than 5,000 as a result of Taylor Green's ad something you couldn't possibly hope to prove

Then yeah, you got her. That's illegal. But

As long as the donor says, no, I didn't do it because of

Her ad. Then you don't got her and it's technically not illegal

Because again, campaign finance laws are stupid in this country. Thanks to the conservative Supreme court in cases like citizens, United and McCutcheon that allows these super PACS to basically do whatever the hell they want without any fear of repercussions. Now, of course the federal elections commission could look into this, but they're not like we know they're not, we that's already a given. They're not going to do this. So whether she broke the law or not in this particular instance is almost immediately irrelevant because it's not going to be investigated. Now I started this by saying she may have broken the law again. So what was the other time she broke the law? Well, for that one, you got to rewind the clock all the way back to actually just a week ago when it was revealed that her and her husband, uh, may have committed tax fraud in the state of Georgia by claiming homestead exemption on two separate properties that the couple owns now, not all states have homestead exemptions. I think most of them do. Uh, so if you're not familiar with that, you file homestead exemption for your residents. It reduces the taxes you have to pay. If you do it for a second residence, you lose it on the first one. If you try to do it on both that's tax fraud, that's illegal. Uh, the documents clearly show, they claimed it on two separate residences or two separate home properties, whatever it is.

So that's pretty illegal right off the bat. So

Even though with the super pack thing, which again, may or may not be illegal, it certainly looks like she violated campaign finance laws, probably not going to be able to pop her on that. The other issue, the homestead exemption one, nobody's going to go to jail on that one, probably pay some fines and back taxes. I think it's upwards of like $12,000 total. Um, so they're going to get popped on that, but don't be discouraged, right? Because here's the good thing about stupid

Criminals. They always give you a second chance. If you don't believe me, look at Matt gates. Look at Donald Trump.