In a move comparable to an admission of guilt, Shock quickly resigned last Tuesday to avoid a Congressional ethics investigation.
Looks like he faces a more serious investigation now.
Republican Congressman Michael Grimm had to resign. He pled guilty to tax evasion charges.
Keith Brekhus writing in PoliticsUSA said, “Although he ran as a fiscal conservative, he bilked the taxpayers to subsidize his expensive tastes… Like so many Republican lawmakers he demands his constituents, especially those who are poor, take personal responsibility for their lives, and he counsels them not become dependent on government support. Yet, like so many of his Republican colleagues, he does not hold him self to the same standards. In fact, he doesn’t even seem to think he should be required to obey the law.”
The potential charges against Shock include billing mileage he didn’t drive, copious uses of private jets, expensive decoration of his DC office to make it look like a set from Downtown Abbey, and a shopping trip to London.
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