{"id":104021,"date":"2024-01-30T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/doj-investigating-house-democrat-for-allegedly-misusing-government-funds-for-personal-security-sources\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:03:54","slug":"doj-investigating-house-democrat-for-allegedly-misusing-government-funds-for-personal-security-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/doj-investigating-house-democrat-for-allegedly-misusing-government-funds-for-personal-security-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ investigating House Democrat for allegedly misusing government funds for personal security: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/01\/GETTYRF_82522_DOJBldg252028729.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Thinkstock\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Department of Justice is investigating a Democrat in the House of Representatives for allegedly misusing government funds for personal security, according to sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>DOJ issued a grand jury subpoena to the House Sergeant at Arms for documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is to notify you formally pursuant to rule 8 of the rules of the House of Representatives that the office of the sergeant at arms for the House of Representatives has been served with a grand jury subpoena for documents issued by the U.S. Department of Justice,&#8221; the clerk announced on the House floor earlier Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what the subpoena is seeking and what member it relates to, but sources told ABC News it relates to a House Democrat allegedly misusing government funds.<\/p>\n<p>Punchbowl News first reported the subpoena was related to allegations involving a House Democrat using government funds related to personal security.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice declined to comment. Representatives for the office of the House Sergeant at Arms have not responded to ABC&#8217;s inquiries. Speaker Mike Johnson did not answer questions from reporters regarding the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinkstock\/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Department of Justice is investigating a Democrat in the House of Representatives for allegedly misusing government funds for personal security, according to sources familiar with the matter. DOJ issued a grand jury subpoena to the House Sergeant at Arms for documents. &#8220;This is to notify<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/doj-investigating-house-democrat-for-allegedly-misusing-government-funds-for-personal-security-sources\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}