Rep. James Comer, a multimillionaire farmer, boasts of being one of the largest landholders near his rural Kentucky hometown, and he has meticulously documented nearly all of his landholdings on congressional financial disclosure documents – roughly 1,600 acres in all.
But there are six acres that he bought in 2015 and co-owns with a longtime campaign contributor that he has treated differently, transferring his ownership to Farm Team Properties, a shell company he co-owns with his wife.
Interviews and records reviewed by The Associated Press provide new insights into the financial deal, which risks undercutting the force of some of Comer’s central arguments in his impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden. For months, the chairman of the House Oversight committee and his Republican colleagues have been pounding Biden for how his relatives traded on their famous name to secure business deals.
Mandatory minimums for those who break the public trust. Harsh ones.
Bump all punishments up by a tier for elected officials.
Capital offense is still a capital offense.
Life in prison becomes a capital offense.
Long prison becomes life in prison.
Short prison becomes long prison.
Large fine becomes short prison.
Small fine becomes large fine.
I also think we should make a law that says any elected official making a public statement is assumed to be under oath to tell the truth, and provably false statements made by public officials in an official capacity should be punished as harshly as perjury in court.
And make all fines % based because as they say, flat fines are only punishments for the poor
Ooh, I’d love that public statements count as oath one :-D