Lauren Boebert In Big Trouble For Failing To Report Certain Income

Lauren Boebert has found herself on the wrong side of the House Ethics rules after she failed to report her income from her memoir that she reported last year. It is estimated that Boebert received well over $1 million from the book she released last summer, but not one penny of that was listed on her 2022 financial disclosure form. Her staff says that this is routine, but Ethics rules are crystal clear that this is not ok. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Well folks, Republican representative Lauren Bobert has once again found herself on the wrong side of Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws because based on her 2022 Campaign finance disclosure, turns out Lauren Bobert forgot conveniently to report the royalties that she made off of her memoir that was released in the summer of 2022. Now, her campaign, her staff is very clear like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. She was not required to report this on her 2022 Financial disclosure. And she will be reporting it on her 2023 Financial disclosure because that's what they say. The House Ethics rules stipulate that is a baldfaced lie because it turns out that under these rules adopted in 2022, uh, office holders are actually required to not only report the royalties for their books, but the anticipated royalties that they have not yet been paid. Because that's what Boar's Campaign also claims like, Hey, she didn't get any money from her book in 2022.

They're gonna pay her this year so we don't have to report it. Nope. House Rules say you can anticipate that income, those royalties, and you are required to report those in the year that they are not even paid, but material. Because even if they haven't been paid, they're still material. They go towards her value as a person because obviously capitalism, we put value on people. But either way, the law is very clear. The royalties were anticipated last year. They were estimated they were expected. She was legally required to report them and she didn't. And this report from the Daily Beast actually goes on to say that plenty of other Republicans were in the same position. They had books where they anticipated royalties even though they did not get paid. And guess what they reported them for the year the book came out when they were legally required to do so.

These individuals include Jim Jordan, Ronnie Jackson, and even Matt Gaetz. After, of course, gates got in trouble for initially not reporting it, and then he did report it. So he had to be told You have to do it, but then he did it. So, you know, kudos to him, I guess. But either way, Lauren Bobert consistently, repeatedly, and routinely is finding herself in trouble with regard to campaign finance disclosure laws, and I don't think that's a coincidence, and I don't think it's just because she is that painfully stupid. Yeah, don't get me wrong. She is, but that's not why this

Continues to happen. Last we had heard the FBI was investigating her initial 2020 campaign for Congress. Her first one, because of the over-reporting of mileage that happened to be reimbursing her for the exact same amount that her now closed restaurant needed to pay off a debt. Then immediately after she got that check from her campaign, magically that debt for her restaurant was paid off and it was so much mileage that would it, uh, basically would have her driving around the circumference of the earth. So where's that investigation? Obviously, we cannot rely on the House Ethics Committee to do their job here and hold Lauren Bobert accountable. We also know that, by the way, um, here's the thing in the report here, it says, last year Forbes reported that the Bobert campaign may have run a foul of campaign finance rules when it post posted online fundraising ads directing supporters to pre-order her book from retailers.

Now, typically what happens is that when you have a congressional candidate, uh, you know, anybody who's holding office or running for office, if they've written a book, what they do is they buy a bunch of the books with their campaign money and then give them out to, you know, donors. If you donate a certain amount, that's legal. What's not legal, which is what Lauren Bobert did, is telling people, here's a link to go buy my book from, you know, Amazon or Barnes and Noble or Books a Million using your campaign dollars to send out that information. And that is what Boer did. So where's that investigation? Where's the mileage investigation? Where's the investigation for her repeatedly failing to disclose the things that she is supposed to disclose?