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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Mon Dec 16, 2019, 12:13 AM Dec 2019

Devin Nunes lives on a congressman's salary. How is he funding so many lawsuits?

Perhaps Nunes has the same backers as Dana Rohrbacher?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/devin-nunes-lives-on-a-congressmans-salary-how-is-he-funding-so-many-lawsuits/ar-AAK9jPp?ocid=spartanntp

WASHINGTON — Rep. Devin Nunes’ critics have obsessed over how he is paying for the six lawsuits he filed this year, but there are no public records showing how he has paid his Virginia lawyer.

That means Nunes is either paying for the lawsuits out of his own pocket, promising to pay his lawyer a portion of any money they’re awarded in court at a later date, or flouting House Ethics rules that would require him to publicly disclose who is funding the legal work.

Nunes, R-Calif., has filed lawsuits against Twitter, anonymous social media users known as Devin Nunes’ Cow and Devin Nunes’ Mom, a Republican political strategist, media companies, journalists, progressive watchdog groups, a political research company that worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and a retired farmer in Nunes’ own district.

All but one of those lawsuits — the one filed in California by Nunes’ campaign against retired farmer Paul Buxman, who accused Nunes of being a fake farmer — is still active. Nunes filed most of the cases in Virginia.
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Devin Nunes lives on a congressman's salary. How is he funding so many lawsuits? (Original Post) TomCADem Dec 2019 OP
Rubles. n/t MontanaMama Dec 2019 #1
lol -that was the first thing that came to my mind, as well. salin Dec 2019 #8
Hmmm. One guess. smirkymonkey Dec 2019 #2
The cows ponied up? marble falls Dec 2019 #3
Maybe he sold SCantiGOP Dec 2019 #4
Campaign Funds. bitterross Dec 2019 #5
If payment came through PayPal in the form of Rubles, I'd guess Peter Thiel. Remember Gawker? nt okaawhatever Dec 2019 #6
Farm subsidies for his pretend farm? 2naSalit Dec 2019 #7
Larry Klayman would be my first guess jmowreader Dec 2019 #9
BOGO? BuffaloJackalope Dec 2019 #10
 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
5. Campaign Funds.
Mon Dec 16, 2019, 12:52 AM
Dec 2019

I'm betting he's improperly diverting campaign funds.

No attorney with any sense would take these cases on contingency. They have to know there's ZERO chance of Nunes collecting on any of these nuisance suits.

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
9. Larry Klayman would be my first guess
Mon Dec 16, 2019, 03:07 AM
Dec 2019

I don't think it's Russia. There are only so many rubles in the world; throwing them down the rathole that is Suing Devin Nunes' Cow wouldn't appeal to them. On the other hand, Klayman (or another RW group in the US) would fund Nunes' suits just because pissing on liberals is what they do.

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