See our media citations from outlets around the nation this week:
A White-Collar Indictment Shatters Representative Henry Cuellar’s Blue-Collar Image (The New York Times)
The spending detailed in the indictment includes using the foreign money to pay off $58,000 in credit card payments and other debts, fund living expenses and make purchases including a $12,000 custom gown for Ms. Cuellar and a $7,000 down payment for a new car. It presents a very different picture of Mr. Cuellar from the one he projected back in Laredo. His net worth dipped as low as $29,000 in 2013, down from a minimum of $200,000 the year before, according to an analysis of the disclosure filings by the nonpartisan website OpenSecrets.
Top US ethics watchdog investigating Trump over dinner with oil bosses (The Guardian)
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has told the Guardian that it is investigating the dinner at Trump’s club with more than 20 oil and gas company executives. Trump asked them for a $1bn presidential campaign contribution, while at the same time vowing to undo Joe Biden’s restrictions on natural gas export permits, oil drilling and car pollution. The fossil fuel industry has already donated $7.3m this election cycle to Trump’s campaign and groups backing his candidacy, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by the non-profit watchdog OpenSecrets.
Top Republican donors fund group doxxing pro-Palestinian college students (CNBC)
A far-right activist group that is doxxing college students who engage in pro-Palestinian protests revealed that it is funded by top Republican political donors and nonprofits backed by wealthy business leaders. The contributors listed on the tax return include billionaire Republican megadonor Jeff Yass, who Accuracy in Media said gave it $1 million. So far, Yass and his wife have contributed $70 million to dozens of Republican candidates and committees, according to the nonpartisan campaign finance database OpenSecrets.
