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GOP lawmakers may be confronted with taking the 5th if subpoenaed over Capitol riot: legal analyst

Responding to a CNN report that the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot has asked telecommunications companies to preserve the phone records of close to a dozen Republican lawmakers, a former prosecutor suggested the development could lead to subpoenas and possible legal battles for the GOP members.

On Monday, CNN reported on the committee's demand that targeted GOP Reps. Lauren Boebert (CO), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Jim Jordan (OH), Andy Biggs (AZ), Paul Gosar (AZ), Mo Brooks (AL), Madison Cawthorn (NC), Matt Gaetz (FL), Louie Gohmert (TX), Jody Hice (GA) and Scott Perry (PA).

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Extremist Republicans pushing lie about Joe Biden falling asleep in meeting with Israeli prime minister

Republican members of Congress were caught pushing disinformation online that President Joe Biden fell asleep during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) cited the video in her demand that Biden be removed from office.

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CNN analyst pours cold water on GOP lawmakers' 'ridiculous' demand that Biden resign

In a column for CNN, editor-at-large Chris Cillizza had little patience for Republican lawmakers' knee-jerk response to the suicide bombing in Afghanistan that took the lives of 13 U.S. military members as well as over 170 Afghans on Thursday, saying their demand that President Joe Biden should immediately resign shouldn't be taken seriously.

With conservative rabble-rousers like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) calling for Biden's impeachment, some Republican senators called for Biden to step aside.

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Lauren Boebert admits to campaign finance problems: 'I under-reported a lot of stuff' to the FEC

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., knows a thing or two about not following rules that apply to her. In light of recent reports of Boebert's alleged or apparent violations of House ethics rules, an old interview from February reveals just how blatant her violations were and understood to be, all while acting with apparent impunity from the letter of the law.

This article first appeared in Salon.

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Lauren Boebert’s gas problem: Far-right lawmaker concealed blatant conflict of interest

As the AP and the Washington Post recently reported, Rep. Lauren Boebert, the pro-gun Colorado Republican and Trump loyalist, failed to disclose that her husband worked for an energy consulting firm even as she pushed for looser regulations on oil and gas drilling as a member of the House Natural Resources Committee. If the intention was to conceal the source of the Boeberts' income and the obvious conflict of interest, the Post reports, the failure to disclose could be a criminal act.

Further investigation by Salon reveals just how closely tied both the congresswoman and her husband, Jayson Boebert, are to the Colorado natural gas industry, which raises the question of why Rep. Boebert was assigned to the committee with direct oversight over-regulating that business.

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Lauren Boebert posted huge business losses in 2018 -- and her financial entanglements for the last 2 years are confusing

Last Friday was the deadline for members of the House of Representatives to file their 2020 financial disclosure reports to the Clerk of House. It passed without Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., the firebrand pro-gun conservative, filling on time. On Tuesday of this week, the congresswoman filed her 2020 disclosure, but a Salon investigation revealed that she has failed to file the mandated reports for previous years, including 2019.

With Boebert's financial dealings from both 2019 and 2020, for the most part, remaining unclear, one fascinating question has emerged: What happened to the plane? Specifically, to the red Aviat Husky, a two-seat light aircraft that Boebert either did or did not own at one point.

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GOP's Lauren Boebert failed to disclose husband's income from energy company during 2020 campaign

On Wednesday, local news station KDVR and the Associated Press reported that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), an infamously outspoken pro-Trump and QAnon-curious freshman lawmaker, failed to disclose income her husband made from an energy firm when she was running for Congress in 2020.

"In paperwork filed with the House of Representatives on Tuesday, the Republican congresswoman reported that her husband, Jayson Boebert, received the money as a consultant to 'Terra Energy Productions' in 2020, and earned $460,000 as a consultant for the firm in 2019," said the report. "Boebert did not report the income last year, when she stunned the political world by ousting incumbent Rep. Scott Tipton during the GOP primary in Colorado's sprawling 3rd district, which stretches from ski resorts to energy-rich basins in the state's west. Boebert went on to win the general election in the Republican-leaning district."

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Lauren Boebert may face legal action as FEC questions her over 'personal use' of campaign funds

Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert is under pressure from federal officials investigating her alleged personal use of thousands of dollars of campaign funds, CNBC reports.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) wants to know what Boebert did with four Venmo payments to her campaign totaling over $6,000.

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