TJ Cox
Former California Democrat Congressman TJ Cox was arrested by the FBI on expenses of wire fraud, cash laundering and marketing campaign regulation violations.
Cox was indicted on 28 crimes by a federal grand jury – “15 counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of cash laundering, one rely of economic establishment fraud on a mortgage and one rely of constructing unlawful conduit contributions to his congressional marketing campaign in 2017,” KFSN reported.
FIRST ON @ABC30: Former Valley Congressman T.J. Cox (@TJCoxCongress) charged in 28-count indictment.
Wire fraud, cash laundering, mortgage fraud, marketing campaign regulation violations, Granite Park.
It’s all in there.
I’ll have particulars at 11 a.m. pic.twitter.com/LgOVw3JwRy— Corin Hoggard (@corinhoggard) August 16, 2022
In 2020, all eyes have been on California district 21 as Republican David Valadao and Democrat TJ Cox battled it out in Fresno County weeks after Election Day.
Recall, as quickly as Republican congressional candidate David Valadao pulled forward of Democrat Cox by over 4,000 votes in November 2020, elections officers halted counting ballots on account of “Covid-19 publicity.”
TJ Cox stole the election in 2018 with poll harvesting however Valadao (who turned out to be a RINO) got here again and defeated the Democrat criminal in 2020.
After Cox’s arrest, Rep. Valadao advised ABC 30 reporter Corin Hoggard: “All of us knew all alongside that T.J. was a shady individual and it’s simply been confirmed at present.”
Cox twice battled @RepDavidValadao for a seat in Congress.
Valadao high me at present:
“All of us knew all alongside that T.J. was a shady individual and it’s simply been confirmed at present.”@ABC30— Corin Hoggard (@corinhoggard) August 16, 2022
Cox was booked into Fresno County Jail on Tuesday.
Cox was booked into the Fresno County jail Tuesday morning.
— Corin Hoggard (@corinhoggard) August 16, 2022
KFSN reported:
A brand new federal grand jury indictment expenses former Central Valley Congressman T.J. Cox with 28 crimes, together with marketing campaign regulation violations and for wire fraud in buying a mortgage for development at Granite Park.
Cox is accused of diverting cash from his companies for his personal private use.
The grand jury discovered proof he defrauded buyers in an almond processing firm and a tax credit score funding firm, and he lied to get loans for Granite Park and for a house mortgage.
From 2013 to 2018, federal prosecutors say Cox used two totally different fraud schemes and “illicitly obtained over $1.7 million in diverted consumer funds and firm loans and investments he solicited after which stole.”
Within the 5 felony counts involving Granite Park, the grand jury charged Cox with utilizing his tax credit score firm to ensure the mortgage. However prosecutors say he did that with out consent from his co-owners. The lender wired greater than $1.28 million to Cox’s sports activities non-profit, however that mortgage is now in default and town of Fresno might be requested to pay it off.
Cox can also be accused of funneling cash to enterprise associates and members of the family for them to then donate to his congressional marketing campaign in 2017. The Democrat served in Congress from 2019-2021, representing elements of Fresno, Kern and Tulare counties.
