This indicted Democratic congressman wants you to pay to fight his corruption charges
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) is facing corruption charges that include accepting bribes and using federal grants, charitable funds, and campaign donations to line his own wallet. But Fattah doesn't want to leave Congress — and neither does he want to pay to fight those charges himself.
Thus his new campaign website, Fattah2016.com, conveniently features not one, but two donation buttons. With the first, you can give to his campaign. With the second, you donate money to his legal defense trust which, again, he needs because he is accused of misusing donated money.
Fattah can accept up to $5,000 per donor in the legal fund. He spent $55,000 on legal defense in the first half of this year.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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