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The Internal Revenue Service has launched a probe into three prominent Florida Republican Party leaders’ use of their party-issued credit cards, including former Florida House Speaker and leading GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio. The probe’s purpose is to determine whether enough evidence exists to open a criminal investigation.
At issue is whether Rubio, then Speaker of the Florida House representing his Miami-Dade county legislative district, former state GOP chair Jim Greer and former state GOP executive director Delmar Johnson, personally benefited by charging personal expenses on their Republican Party-issued American Express cards, and failed to report those charges as income on their tax returns.
The broader issue for the public’s interest is whether these party leaders misused or double-billed tax payers for personal expenses. Rubio has already admitted to double billing the party and tax payers for a number of flights from South Florida to the state capital. Although he has promised to pay the party back for these charges, the GOP reports that no check has yet been received.
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- Surely this is another over-reaching of the federal gov't into the private lives of good christian citizens.luckyorphan
- Now...which was supposed to be the party of fiscal responsibility again?luckyorphan