"Mr. Raskin knew the program would be shot down," wrote 14th District Judge Joseph A Barron, "so he pushed his application through using his position."
Raskin's defense was that the program was perfectly legal when he took the money.
"That defense is summarily rejected."
The judge also noted that the Raskins are worth more than $14 million and shouldn't have qualified in the first place.
"There's grounds for a criminal case here if ever this court saw one."
Jamie Raskin
American lawyer, politician, and U.S. Representative from Maryland since 2017
raskin.house.gov
Jamin Ben Raskin is an American attorney, law professor, and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. A progressive member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. The district previously included portions of Montgomery County, a suburban county northwest of Washington, D.C., and extended through rural Frederick County to the Pennsylvania border Continued in Wikipedia
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