Today, the DCCC launched its 1st TV ad in Ohio’s 1st Congressional District, “Website,” which highlights how Steve Chabot has become shady and outdated, just like the clunky website he paid his son-in-law hundreds of thousands of dollars to build.
Shady Chabot faced an FEC complaint after he got caught paying his son-in-law hundreds of thousands of dollars to update his website, as much as 800% above fair market value. That payment inside the family was responsible for 100% of Chabot’s son-in-law’s federal business since 2012. The coordination was so egregious it led good government advocates to say this deal “smacks of nepotism and self-dealing.”
But Shady Chabot’s corruption doesn’t stop there!
Just weeks ago the embattled Congressman confirmed the FBI investigated his campaign after $123,000 disappeared from their campaign last year. Yes, THE Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Since then, his Campaign Manager went missing, we learned his “Treasurer” didn’t know he had the job, a Grand Jury was convened, and yet… that $123,000 is still missing from his campaign.
“From doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to his son-in-law for ‘website consulting’ to the FBI investigation into the $123,000 still missing his campaign coffers, Ohioans are ready for a change from Chabot’s shady and outdated leadership,” said DCCC Spokesperson Sarah Guggenheimer. “Shady Steve Chabot is as out of touch with working Ohioans as his campaign website is with modernity. In his 24-years in Congress, Chabot has become everything that’s wrong with Washington’s self-dealing swamp,”
Ad script:
NARRATOR: Steve Chabot has been in Washington for twenty-four years.
No wonder his website is outdated and clunky.
But Chabot paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for web consulting …
To his son-in-law …
From his campaign.
The FBI investigated missing funds from Chabot’s campaign account…
Because a hundred and twenty thousand dollars was unaccounted for.
Steve Chabot.
Outdated.
Clunky.
Shady.
Twenty-four years is long enough.
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