Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) is accused of violating the Ethics In Authorities Act by utilizing personal info to make inventory trades that he financially benefited from, and now an ethics grievance has been filed.
In a duplicate of the grievance first obtained by Spectrum Information, Tiffany Muller, president of the political motion fund, wrote a request to the committee to have Garcia investigated for alleged violations of the Ethics in Authorities Act. Earlier this week, the Every day Beast reported that Garcia offered as much as $50,000 in shares of Boeing weeks earlier than the Home Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, which Garcia served on on the time, launched its report investigating the lethal crashes involving Boeing’s 737 Max airliner.
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“Congressman Garcia not only betrayed his constituents’ trust by using non-public information to protect his financial assets, but he illegally covered it up by purposely failing to report the trade until after his reelection. This is a blatant abuse of power and a slap in the face to families in his district who trusted him to fight for their needs, not to safeguard his stock portfolio,” Muller stated in a press release shared with Spectrum Information.
Rep. Garcia’s workplace has denied any wrongdoing and has known as the grievance a determined try to resurrect a failed partisan assault.
Garcia’s is without doubt one of the seats that Home Democrats shall be focusing on to flip in 2024.
With the retirement of former speaker Kevin McCarthy in lower than two weeks, Republicans will maintain a tenuous two-seat majority within the Home. If the Garcia scandal snowballed, that majority might rapidly sink to a single seat.
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