Squad member Cori Bush paid her new husband over $60k in campaign cash for ‘private security services’ even though he doesn’t have a license to perform such work in St. Louis.

In fact Bush’s new husband doesn’t even claim to provide such services. He runs a moving company.

Here’s more from Fox News:

Missouri Democratic Rep. Cori Bush’s campaign doled out $60,000 in private security payments last year to Cortney Merritts, who she quietly married earlier this month.

Merritts, however, pocketed the security payments despite not having a St. Louis private security license, which is needed to perform security functions in the area, Fox News Digital has discovered. Merritts also received the campaign’s cash as it simultaneously paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a St. Louis security firm and another individual for personal protection.

Fox News Digital filed a public records request with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department on Monday morning seeking information regarding Merritts’ private security license. In response, a Sunshine Law administrator said there are “no responsive records” relative to the request, and Merritts does not have a current license.

When asked if Merritts ever had a private security license, the administrator said that the “last security license issued to that individual expired in 2012.”

Bush’s campaign pushed the security cash to Merritts as it disbursed large sums to PEACE Security, a St. Louis-based firm that employs several “security operators” with military or law enforcement experience, a cached version of its website states.

From January to late December 2022, Merritts collected a steady stream of $2,500 checks totaling $60,000 from Bush’s campaign for security, her filings show. He was also reimbursed $2,359.59 for gas and travel. While Merritts cashed the checks, Bush’s campaign paid PEACE Security $225,281.80 for personal protection, according to a review of her campaign records. Bush’s committee also paid $50,000 to an individual named Nathaniel Davis for security during that time.

Merritts, meanwhile, says he’s the owner of Vetted Movers on his LinkedIn profile. On Jan. 3, he even offered moving services to Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

“I’m at the Capitol offering to help Kevin McCarthy move his s— out of the Speaker’s office and back into his own,” Merritts tweeted.

I know that this is pennies compared to the millions that Ilhan Omar pays her current husband for campaign services rendered, but that’s not the point.

These politicians are unethically and potentially illegally funneling campaign cash to family members and such which can in turn benefit them.

I don’t now that anything will be done about this, but I hope Bush is held accountable for using campaign cash this way.