GOP Rep Admits Lying About $320K Loan To Campaign

Nashville’s NBC affiliate reports:

Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles filed 11 amendments to his campaign finance reports Wednesday, acknowledging that his claims for the last two years to have loaned $320,000 to his campaign were not true. Despite having reported making the $320,000 personal loan, Ogles’ personal financial disclosures did not show any substantial investments — not even a savings account.

This development follows NewsChannel 5’s revelations that Ogles misrepresented his educational and professional credentials, including his claims to be an economist, a trained law enforcement officer and an expert in “international sex crimes.” Our investigation discovered that he had used the stillborn death of a child to raise nearly $25,000 for a children’s burial garden that was never built. Ogles has refused to provide evidence of what he did with the money.

Read the full article. Another win for Phil Williams! Ogles appeared here earlier this week for his bill that would ban gag orders against all defendants.

Two years ago, Andy Ogles reported that he had $283,338 “cash on hand.”
Now, he says it was really $2,462.
How do you look at your bank accounts and “mistakenly include” cash you don’t have? 2/ pic.twitter.com/6wQnMfwZJb

— Phil Williams (@NC5PhilWilliams) May 23, 2024