Duncan Hunter To Collect Over $10,000 In Taxpayer-Funded Income After Guilty Plea

Duncan Hunter — the California Republican who admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations to pay for personal expenditures like video games, vacations and airfare for his pet rabbits — will collect more than $10,000 in taxpayer funds by delaying his resignation from Congress until “after the holidays.”

Despite initially claiming the criminal investigation into his finances was a politically motivated “witch hunt,” that it was mainly his wife’s fault, but it was also a little bit his son’s fault, Hunter pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing campaign funds to support his luxurious lifestyle. When politicians admit to criminal wrongdoing, they often announce their resignation before or at the same time they announce they are guilty of crimes. Hunter, who is facing a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, waited three days before conceding that he would step down. And he’s not leaving before he can squeeze a few more paychecks out of American taxpayers.