Cortez Masto and her husband have $1 million in one bank account alone
Washington, D.C. – Catherine Cortez Masto is a career bureaucrat and politician. Her husband was in the secret service. But like so many in Washington, Cortez Masto, and her husband have turned their public service into millions.
According to the Daily Wire:
Despite spending their careers on government payrolls, the couple built a joint net worth of between $2 million and $7.5 million, according to the financial disclosure Masto filed with the Senate last month…
One joint bank account, at Town & Country Bank, has between $1 million and $5 million in it, records show. Another bank account solely in the senator’s name, at the Clark County Credit Union, has between $100,000 and $250,000 in it. The form reports assets only in broad ranges, so putting an exact figure on the amount is not possible.
A single bank account with as much as $5 million in it? Not too shabby for a lowly former employee of Clark County, Nevada.
So you can imagine Nevadans’ shock when they learned this week that her husband received over $27,000 from Clark County for his paid-for rental property via a rental assistance program intended to help struggling tenets keep a roof over their heads during the pandemic. Of course, Cortez Masto and her husband are not low-income, struggling Nevadans anymore…
This is not the first time Cortez Masto has personally profited from her government work, and it likely won’t be the last. When public service pays like this, why would you stop??
From the Las Vegas Journal Review
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s husband, Paul Masto, received about $27,000 from Clark County in the 2022 fiscal year as a result of a tenant in their rental property seeking federal rental assistance.
Clark County quarterly expenditure reports showed Paul Masto receiving three separate payments from the county in the 2022 fiscal year, totaling $27,395, despite the senator not listing the income from Clark County in her personal financial disclosure…
On Cortez Masto’s financial disclosure, the income is listed as a joint ownership that made between $15,001 to $50,000 in income from a rental property.
The payments — her campaign and Clark County confirmed — came from the Clark County CARES Housing Assistance program (CHAP), which is a rental assistance program for eligible Nevada tenants experiencing financial hardship.
CHAP distributes the federal rental assistance that came from the federal government to Nevada, said Jim Berchtold, an attorney at the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, who has worked closely with CHAP, the county and courts to help tenants stay in their homes during the pandemic.
“The goal was really to keep people in their homes, keep a roof over their heads,” Berchtold said.
Read more at the Las Vegas Review-Journal
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