BREAKING: Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) Under Investigation

[Omaha Steve]

From the Nebraska Democratic Party

(Edit:Republican) Jeff Fortenberry has failed us yet again.

This time, though, he’s fessing up to an ongoing FBI investigation into illegal campaign contributions from foreign nationals.

Jeff’s solution to the investigation? Use it as a slimy strategy to fundraise for a legal defense fund.

In a now deleted fundraising page for Fortenberry’s legal expense fund, Axios News found this from the Fortenberry campaign team: "[President] Biden’s FBI is using its unlimited power to prosecute me on a bogus charge."

The investigation comes following illegal campaign contributions from a foreign billionaire to the campaigns of a number of congressional Republicans, including Fortenberry.

Fortenberry is now resorting to these desperate fundraising measures (calling Speaker Pelosi a “Swamp Creature” on the same fundraising page) to pay off exorbitant legal fees to his campaign’s new, California-based legal firm specializing in white collar criminal defense.

[lagomorph777]

1. They've found illegal donations from a foreign billionaire to multiple Reptilians?

Why isn't this all over the media?



Oh, I forgot. The "liberal" media is a myth.

[viva la]

9. Remember Butina?

She was funneling Putin cash to the NRA and lots of GOPers.

[lagomorph777]

11. Yup.

She went home; they went to the bank.

[viva la]

12. Trump pardoned the hapless boyfriend--

A South Dakota man who admitted to stealing more than a million dollars from investors received a last-minute pardon from President Donald Trump.

Paul Erickson also made national headlines because of his relationship with Russian agent Maria Butina.

In our 2017 KELOLAND News investigation “The KELOLAND Kremlin Connection,” we reported that South Dakota native, Paul Erickson was in the middle of a congressional investigation into collusion between Trump’s political campaign and the Russians.

https://www.keloland.com/news/investigates/trump-pardon-called-paul-erickson-bilking-1-2-million-from-investors-a-minor-financial-crime/

[hlthe2b]

2. For any (like me) who don't know who he is:

Jeffrey Lane Fortenberry is an American Republican politician and economist serving as the U.S. Representative for Nebraska's 1st congressional district since 2005.

Figures... But the article made it sound like he was a Democrat that had "failed the party."

[RamblingRose]

3. Thanks for the added info. n/t

[Walleye]

4. Yes. I had to dig to find out he was a Republican

[NCjack]

6. Thanks.

[phylny]

8. Yes. I implore people to put the info in the title.

“Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)” is all you need to make it clear.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)

State Senator Mary Smith (I-VA)

[StarfishSaver]

7. Please note: the reason we now know about this investigation is that the target revealed it publicly

Until he did, neither the FBI, in particular, nor DOJ, more generally( AG, U.S. Attorney, etc.), gave any indication to the public that Fortenberry, a U.S. Congressman, was being investigated.

This is exactly how these investigations are supposed to work (aside from the part about the target announcing it in order to fundraise). ...

[FSogol]

10. If you are under investigation for wrongdoing, you might be a GOP Congressperson.

Whoops, Fortenberry, not Foxworthy.