Justin Salsburey pleaded guilty August 13 to a fentanyl and meth conspiracy run out of a Bellefontaine house. Ramaswamy's campaign kept paying his security firm for three weeks after the arrest — including $2,000 four days after publicly cutting ties.
Vivek Ramaswamy bought a discarded Alzheimer's drug for $5 million, put his mother on the payroll to reanalyze the failed trial data, and raised $315 million. Twenty days before the drug failed again, SoftBank put $1.1 billion of new equity into the parent company. A California teachers' pension fund lost more than $1 million.
On July 22 the House passed the Stop Insider Trading Act. It's still sitting in the Senate. Max Miller traded that same day. Michael Rulli and Kevin Hern were still trading in August.
POLITICO asked all 16 whether they'd return money from a congressman accused of assaulting his ex-wife and their young child. Brad Finstad returned $5,000. Mike Lawler said no. The other 14 wouldn't say.
A Texas judge threw out the registration rules for silencers and short-barreled rifles. Six days later, Andrew Clyde — who owns two gun stores — led a letter asking DOJ to skip the appeal and stop enforcing the law nationwide. Thirty-three of the signers have report cards here.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
A Texas Republican admitted an affair with a staffer who died by suicide, and the Speaker said it wasn't 'time' to talk about resigning. With Max Miller accused of domestic abuse, Johnson says it's 'not my business.' He had no such trouble deciding about Democrats.
The Justice Department dropped its case against former Olympian Davey Hearn after admitting the Reflecting Pool damage was a botched contractor job, not vandalism. Asked on CNN whether Hearn deserved anything from Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, Jordan said it wasn't his call — seconds after volunteering an opinion about a payout he didn't like.
A fund collected nearly $149,000 from donors who thought they were helping East Palestine. Its founder paid a $25,000 penalty and took a lifetime ban from Ohio charities. A year and a half later, Rulli made him his communications director.
