Rep. Katie Porter probing possible bribery scheme involving Trump administration officials

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Rep. Katie Porter probing possible bribery scheme involving Trump administration officials

Kaitlyn Schallhorn
PUBLISHED: December 8, 2022 at 12:36 p.m. | UPDATED: December 9, 2022 at 11:38 a.m.

https://www.ocregister.com/2022/12/08/rep-katie-porter-probing-possible-bribery-scheme-involving-trump-administration-officials/amp/

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Rep. Katie Porter says the House Natural Resources Committee is looking into a potential bribery scheme involving Trump administration officials that resulted in pardons for two ranchers convicted of setting fires on public lands.

Porter and Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., said they uncovered a possible “incident of bribery” involving Mike Ingram, an Arizona developer.

They recently requested documents from the U.S. Department of the Interior that may shed a light on whether he coordinated with administration officials to secure pardons of ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, a father and son duo convicted in 2012 of purposefully setting fires on public lands.

Ingram was the subject of the first criminal referral by the House Committee on Natural Resources, which Grijalva leads, earlier this year. That case involved his proposed real estate development in Arizona and an alleged bribery scheme to get federal approval.

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[albacore]

1. Go get 'em Katie. This is why we love you! nt

[jimfields33]

3. She has three weeks to get this done.

I hope she can.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. No paywall...

https://archive.ph/AIEsi

[yonder]

4. The Hammonds are the ranchers who were the inspiration for the protest, armed takeover,

occupation and destruction of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters building by the Bundy clan and others of their ilk back in the first month of 2016.

I recall they had nothing to do with that protest itself, and actually tried distancing themselves from it, but were already in hot water with the BLM for arson of public lands a few years earlier.

Rep. Porter is the right person for the job and I say, git em.