Lauren Boebert paid rent and utilities with campaign funds, FEC filings show

Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert paid rent and inferior bills with run funds successful usurpation of national run concern laws, caller filings with the Federal Election Commision show.

The filings, submitted to the FEC connected Tuesday, besides bespeak that Boebert reimbursed her run for the $6,650 worthy of payments. Representatives for the congresswoman could not instantly beryllium reached for comment.

Each of the 4 payments successful question (two for $2,000 each and different 2 for $1,325 each) were amended to amusement payments for the aforesaid amount, statement and connected the aforesaid days to John Pacheco, whose code is the aforesaid arsenic Shooters Grill successful Rifle, which Boebert owns. Pacheco’s narration to Boebert was not instantly clear.

The latest discrepancy appeared successful a July run concern report for the committee Lauren Boebert for Congress. Payments to Venmo were described arsenic “Personal disbursal of Lauren Boebert billed to run relationship successful error. Expense has been reimbursed.”

The adjacent month, FEC officials asked the campaign for clarification connected the error. Boebert spokesperson Jake Settle told Forbes that helium would picture the payments arsenic “personal expenses.”

If the payments were “personal usage of run funds, the Commission whitethorn see taking further ineligible action,” FEC Senior Campaign Finance Analyst Shannon Ringgold wrote successful the August missive to Boebert’s campaign. “However, punctual enactment to get reimbursement of the funds successful question volition beryllium taken into consideration.”

Boebert’s supplemental report filed Tuesday reiterated that the expenses had been reimbursed and volition beryllium reported with the campaign’s next, which is due successful October.

In February, The Denver Post reported that Boebert was paid much than $22,000 successful mileage reimbursements, which would person meant she drove 38,712 miles successful 2020 during a agelong of the pandemic wherever question was limited.

Boebert’s run aboriginal filed an amended study to the FEC, claiming the congresswoman received $21,200 successful reimbursements for mileage, question expenses and edifice stays. More than $17,000 of that wealth inactive went to mileage reimbursements, the run said.

And successful August, The Associated Press reported Boebert had not divulged during her run that her hubby made $478,000 arsenic an lipid and state advisor successful 2020. She filed that accusation with the House of Representatives respective months into her archetypal term.