A GOP congressman’s campaign finance problem just got worse
A GOP congressman’s campaign finance problem just got worse BY NOAH LANARD excerpt: Mother Jones illustration; Mark Humphrey/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. There are holes in Tennessee Republican Congressman Andy Ogles’ personal story. Some have been relatively harmless fabrications. Ogles claimed to be a scholar of German, Japanese, and Russian and he has repeatedly described himself as an economist. In fact, Ogles took one only one community college course in Elementary Japanese (receiving a B) and one in economics (receiving a C). Soon after, he dropped out. But gaps in his narrative of past events might be more consequential. In particular, the stories Ogles told during his winning 2022 campaign about his personal and campaign finances. A recently released Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) report found substantial evidence that Ogles “omitted...