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suegeo

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Wed Aug 18, 2021, 10:31 AM Aug 2021

Our View: GOP Another shadow over Hagedorn

It is unclear what will result from the public ugliness that erupted late last week at the upper levels of the Minnesota Republican Party, but it is at the very least another black eye for Rep. Jim Hagedorn, the second-term congressman for the 1st District.

Hagedorn at best appears to be a magnet for an assortment of grifters and worse — from last year’s revelations that his congressional office’s budget was being milked by a staffer’s sideline business, to an apparent commingling of congressional and campaign resources, to the indictment last week on sex trafficking charges of a major donor and family friend.


https://www.mankatofreepress.com/opinion/editorials/our-view-gop-another-shadow-over-hagedorn/article_84df7ab4-fe7b-11eb-87c6-27aec44b801c.html]



Huh, I didn't know his budget was being milked by a staffer's sideline biz. Gonna have to research that...after I take a shower, feeling a bit soiled after reading about these grifting, sex trafficking GOP criminals.
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Budget milkers? Peter Su and John Sample suegeo Aug 2021 #1

suegeo

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1. Budget milkers? Peter Su and John Sample
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 10:37 AM
Aug 2021
https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/09/08/internal-review-hagedorns-ex-chief-of-staff-funneled-printing-contracts-to-brother-hagedorn-employee/]


The review found that Abernathy West, a company to which the office gave more than $340,000 of taxpayer money, is likely owned by Szu-Nien Su, a former high-ranking aide in the U.S. House and the brother of Hagedorn’s former chief of staff, Peter Su.

The review also found that another Hagedorn office employee, John Sample, is the owner of Invocq Technologies, as first reported by the Minnesota Reformer last month.
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