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babylonsister

(171,032 posts)
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 08:33 AM Oct 2021

Who Messed Up Devin Nunes' Campaign Records This Bad? His Mom.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-messed-up-devin-nunes-campaign-records-this-bad-his-mom?ref=home

Who Messed Up Devin Nunes’ Campaign Records This Bad? His Mom.
‘Mangled’
It turns out that Rep. Devin Nunes’ mom has produced errors in his campaign-finance reports going back 17 years.
Roger Sollenberger
Political Reporter
Updated Oct. 27, 2021 5:36AM ET / Published Oct. 27, 2021 4:58AM ET


This spring, after receiving a number of federal warnings about a series of accounting errors, the campaign committee for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) embarked on a financial reckoning.

As a result of that reckoning, the campaign has now had to correct a slew of reports, and two of Nunes’ affiliated committees removed his treasurer—his mom—as their government contact.

But over the last few months, Nunes’ mother, Toni Nunes, has filed a confounding series of financial disclosures. The reports attempt to correct an array of accounting errors and oversights, some dating back to 2004, and because the errors carry over from one accounting period to the next, all subsequent filings were also incorrect—meaning the California Republican’s books have been off for 17 years.

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In 2019, Nunes, a voracious litigant, cited his mom in two lawsuits. One was a $77.5 million civil action filed in an Iowa district court charging Esquire and journalist Ryan Lizza with defamation for a report that suggested the Nunes clan had tried to hide the use of undocumented labor at their Iowa dairy farm. A judge tossed the lawsuit the next year.

A separate $250 million defamation suit filed that same year in Henrico County, VA, targeted an array of defendants, including an anonymous parody Twitter account called @DevinNunesMom, who according to the complaint “falsely impersonated Nunes’ mother, and created and maintained an account on Twitter (@DevinNunesMom) for the sole purpose of attacking, defaming, disparaging and demeaning Nunes.”

The complaint cited tweets calling Nunes a “Putin shill” and a “treasonous shitbag,” and demanded the court unveil the human entity behind the parody account. A judge tossed the lawsuit this summer.

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Who Messed Up Devin Nunes' Campaign Records This Bad? His Mom. (Original Post) babylonsister Oct 2021 OP
"Treasonous shitbag". SergeStorms Oct 2021 #1
#TreasonousShitbagRepublicans now going viral Champp Oct 2021 #2
In all fairness to Nunes mom, gab13by13 Oct 2021 #3
Best comment! nt woodsprite Oct 2021 #4
Point we'll taken. SergeStorms Oct 2021 #5
THIS malaise Oct 2021 #8
I'll bet he's having a cow lagomorph777 Oct 2021 #6
Thank you, gab13by13 Oct 2021 #7
How do you escape responsibility for seventeen years? Baitball Blogger Oct 2021 #9
His mom should never have been his bookkeeper, either. It's a mooooving tale of mother & son... Hekate Oct 2021 #10
well she did her job of 'raising a monster' well samnsara Oct 2021 #11
Send Mamma to jail for laundering money. Autumn Oct 2021 #12

SergeStorms

(19,184 posts)
1. "Treasonous shitbag".
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 08:52 AM
Oct 2021

@DevinNunesMom knows him quite well.

I hate that little shit-weasel. I'd like nothing more than to see him lose his election and have to be an actual farmer. He wouldn't last one week.

gab13by13

(21,255 posts)
3. In all fairness to Nunes mom,
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 08:57 AM
Oct 2021

it isn't easy converting rubles to dollars with the changing exchange rate.

SergeStorms

(19,184 posts)
5. Point we'll taken.
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 09:29 AM
Oct 2021

That's why you really need an experienced tax accountant, and exactly why Nunes didn't have one all those years.

Baitball Blogger

(46,682 posts)
9. How do you escape responsibility for seventeen years?
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 10:16 AM
Oct 2021

This man should never have been in a political position for this long.

Hekate

(90,551 posts)
10. His mom should never have been his bookkeeper, either. It's a mooooving tale of mother & son...
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 10:43 AM
Oct 2021

… political and financial corruption.

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