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_Alvin_Row_ OP t1_j8siun0 wrote

Honestly breathtaking stuff here. Here's just from the Friends of Cathy Bevins account:

McCollum was using Cathy Bevins campaign funds for his own personal slush fund to the tune of over $110,000, almost $65,000 of which went to paying off his own American Express cards.

From 2015-2018 he was depositing checks made out to her campaign directly into his own bank account, to the tune of $28,000.

McCollum was also taking checks that were supposed to go to vendors and putting them directly into his account, over $13,000.

Here's where it gets more absurd. He was using the card for personal travel and shit, almost $3000 out of state and internationally. ATM withdraws in Carolina, steakhouse payments in Ohio, airplane tickets for the icelandic line WOW, air travel in Puerto Rico which he put down on forms as "staff travel," and airline tickets to Florida.

From the Jim Smith Victory Slate:

$31,000 was stolen from that account and deposited into his personal account. Again, funds went to paying off American Express bills.

He deposited over $4,000 worth of checks made out to the slate into his own bank account.

He deposited over $20,000 worth of vendor checks into his own account from 2015-2016.

Edit: Statement from Bevins

""I was shocked and saddened to learn about the embezzlement from my campaign account by my long-time treasurer. This is a complete betrayal of trust placed in him by me and by my donors."

Edit 2: 11 counts of perjury included in the charging docs, with a 10 year penalty for each.

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