"I will continue my stand on the House floor against authoritarian Democrat mandates because I don’t want the American people to stand alone,” Greene said in a statement on Monday.
Greene doubled down on her anti-mask position Tuesday, stating she also wasn’t going to get vaccinated.
Greene was forced to apologize in June after she compared mask mandates to Nazi Germany forcing Jews to wear the Star of David under Hitler’s regime.
She was not wearing a mask during the Jan. 6 insurrection while hiding with other House members. Several Democrats were later diagnosed with COVID-19. Greene told Fox News it was “insane” for Republicans to be blamed for the infections.
The $48,000 in fines will be deducted from Greene’s congressional salary.
But now Greene is facing some bigger fish than mask fines. She’s being called out by QAnon fixture attorney Lin Wood, who claims Greene never paid him for legal work. Here’s the rub: Wood wasn’t working for Greene in a personal capacity. As The Daily Beast reports, Wood was handling Greene’s campaign committee as it battled two defamation disputes. And that, my friend, is a violation of federal financial reporting laws.
“I have not been remunerated as of today,” Wood told The Daily Beast, noting he billed for last summer’s services to the tune of $5,000.
Although attorneys can work pro-bono and not break federal election laws, defamation cases are not allowed.
“If he sent an invoice for legal services, this wouldn’t fit under the category of legal services lawyers can provide for free. So the Federal Election Commission would say that these costs must be reflected on her reports,” Brett Kappel, campaign finance specialist at Harmon Curran, told The Daily Beast. “It could be what’s called a ‘disputed debt,’ but you still have to report that, along with who did the work and what it was for.”
“A worse interpretation for Greene would be that the campaign accepted an illegal corporate contribution,” Kappel added. “But at the end of the day, a campaign can’t have someone do this kind of legal work without it being disclosed.”
Speaking of illegal, how about the new finding by The Daily Beast that on Jan. 4, 5, and 6, Greene made four payments totaling $25,500 in advertising to Parler, a social media platform popular with right-wing users, many of the planners of the insurrection, and those who participated in the attack?
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