{"id":50563,"date":"2021-06-19T16:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T16:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=50563"},"modified":"2021-06-19T16:59:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T16:59:33","slug":"report-rep-steven-palazzo-spent-campaign-money-to-fight-allegations-he-misspent-campaign-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=50563","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Report: Rep. Steven Palazzo spent campaign money to fight allegations he misspent campaign money&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/story\/news\/2021\/06\/16\/rep-palazzo-campaign-money-fund-ethics-investigation\/7720074002\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clarion Ledger<\/a>: &#8220;Republican Mississippi Rep. Steven Palazzo\u00a0is using campaign money to pay lawyers defending him in an investigation into whether he misspent campaign funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Palazzo, who represents most of southern Mississippi, paid Jackson law-firm&nbsp;Watkins &amp; Eager more than $60,000 in December using campaign dollars,<a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/pdf\/971\/202101319418658971\/202101319418658971.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;according to campaign finance reports.&nbsp;<\/a>The disbursements are listed as professional fees.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zacheverson\/2021\/06\/15\/mississippi-congressman-used-61000-of-campaign-money-to-fight-ethics-investigation\/?sh=7f53f66671b5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Forbes first reported the payments.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justin Brasell, founder of Triumph Campaigns in Jackson, confirmed to the Clarion Ledger that the payments were for legal defense. Brasell offered no other comment on the matter. Palazzo&#8217;s office did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday afternoon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarion Ledger: &#8220;Republican Mississippi Rep. Steven Palazzo\u00a0is using campaign money to pay lawyers defending him in an investigation into whether he misspent campaign funds. Palazzo, who represents most of southern Mississippi, paid Jackson law-firm&nbsp;Watkins &amp; Eager more than $60,000 in December using campaign dollars,&nbsp;according to campaign finance reports.&nbsp;The disbursements are listed as professional fees.&nbsp;Forbes first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50564,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50563\/revisions\/50564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}