{"id":8201,"date":"2024-05-21T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/indicted-south-texas-rep-cuellar-spends-majority-of-campaign-cash-on-legal-fees\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:10:31","slug":"indicted-south-texas-rep-cuellar-spends-majority-of-campaign-cash-on-legal-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/indicted-south-texas-rep-cuellar-spends-majority-of-campaign-cash-on-legal-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Indicted South Texas Rep. Cuellar spends majority of campaign cash on legal fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        South Texas U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar has diverted more than half of his 2024 campaign cash to covering legal expenses as he faces federal charges of accepting bribes from Azerbaijan&#8217;s state-run oil company and a Mexican bank, government transparency group Open Secrets reports. Nearly $785,000 of the Cuellar campaign&#8217;s $1.5 million in spending through the end of March was on legal fees, according to nonpartisan Open Secret&#8217;s review of federal data. That&#8217;s a significant change from earlier cycles, during which the campaign spent the bulk of its money on media buys and other more routine expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Texas U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar has diverted more than half of his 2024 campaign cash to covering legal expenses as he faces federal charges of accepting bribes from Azerbaijan&#8217;s state-run oil company and a Mexican bank, government transparency group Open Secrets reports. Nearly $785,000 of the Cuellar campaign&#8217;s $1.5 million in spending through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}