Kyrsten Sinema is facing yet another ethics complaint related to her finances, this time coming from the American Accountability Foundation (AAF). The new complaint alleges an “ongoing failure” to “fully complete” financial disclosure reports as required by lawmakers, in a letter sent to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics yesterday.
The group says Sinema’s failure to disclose her assets and potential conflicts of interest raises “serious ethical questions.”
This is the second known ethics complaint raised against Sinema this year, following a complaint about Sinema’s alleged abuse of staff, including requiring them to do her grocery shopping, make sure she is fed at all times, and fix her internet.
In addition to the ethics complaints, the Replace Sinema PAC filed a formal FEC complaint against Sinema, alleging she “illegally diverted funds” from her campaign, spending over $180,000 in campaign funds on “luxury hotels and resorts, car services, expensive charter flights, high-end restaurants, and winery visits and purchases from 2019 to 2022.”
“Kyrsten Sinema long ago sold out her constituents for access to donors and living a high-end luxury lifestyle,” said Sacha Haworth, spokesperson for Replace Sinema. “Arizonans are sick of corruption. That’s why there have now been three complaints filed against Sinema in the last year and why Arizonans are ready to move on from her failed leadership.”
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Fox News: Sinema hit with ethics complaint over alleged failure to detail finances in disclosures: ‘Highly suspicious’
Joe Schoffstall | December 5, 2023
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., is facing a complaint alleging an “ongoing failure” to “fully complete” financial disclosure reports as required by lawmakers, according to a letter provided to Fox News Digital.
The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) sent the document to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics Monday, calling for an investigation into Sinema’s alleged failure to disclose assets, income, and other required items related to Dr. Lindsay Buckman, whom Sinema treated as a spouse for officially related travel in the past and who the group says she still lives with. […]
“The spousal disclosures on financial disclosure forms are required to disclose and prevent conflicts of interest,” the group writes. “The Ethics in Government Act has always understood that conflicts related to holdings of a spouse should be imputed to the spouse who is a Member.” […]
AAF notes Sinema’s financial disclosures “includes barely any assets, despite her having held a Congressional salary of $174,000 for over a decade” and called for the committee to open an investigation into the matter. […]
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