Margaret Hunter, the wife of U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy with her husband to steal nearly $250,000 in campaign funds
The plea deal signed by Margaret Hunter details how the cash-strapped couple treated the congressman’s campaign fund as a personal piggy bank. As summarized by the government, they dipped into it to afford “family vacations, household goods and groceries, restaurants and bar tabs, a bachelor party, gas, fast food, retail shopping, cash withdrawals, a garage door, and personal Uber rides,” as well as other expenses.
“Defendant and Hunter had an implicit agreement that they would and could illegally use Campaign funds for personal use, both when they were together and when they were apart,” Margaret Hunter’s plea deal reads, “and they confirmed their understanding of this agreement by performing numerous overt acts, many of which required their joint coordination and planning.”
Illegal spending detailed in the guilty plea includes: a couples vacation in Las Vegas, a $10,000 family trip to Italy, an Easter brunch at San Diego’s famed Hotel del Coronado, and swag from Disneyland, including “two Minnie Mouse ear headbands, a Star Wars droid knit beanie, and a raglan-sleeve black-and-gray Star Wars girls T-shirt.”
Margaret Hunter’s sentencing is scheduled for mid-September. She is facing a maximum of five years in prison and five years probation — a punishment that’s likely to be downsized through her promise to “tell everything Defendant knows about every person involved presently or in the past in conduct outlined in … the plea agreement, or any other violations of United States law.”
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