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Fri May 15, 2026, 12:39 PM Friday

Norman Ornstein: Dear journalists: every time JD Vance talks about fraud ask him about this outrage covering up

Dear journalists: every time JD Vance talks about fraud ask him about this outrage covering up for and whitewashing the disgraceful fraud of Andy Ogles





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Norman Ornstein: Dear journalists: every time JD Vance talks about fraud ask him about this outrage covering up (Original Post) Passages Friday OP
Donors want answers from Tennessee congressman: 'What did you do with the money?' progressoid Friday #1
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1. Donors want answers from Tennessee congressman: 'What did you do with the money?'
Fri May 15, 2026, 03:36 PM
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It's a scandal involving a Tennessee congressman that just won't seem to go away because his stories keep changing. That scandal – involving almost $25,000 that Ogles collected for a children’s burial garden that was never built – was revived this week when the Maury County Republican emphatically denied that he had ever solicited money from the public.

Now, multiple donors tell NewsChannel 5 they have one question for the second-term congressman: “What did you do with the money?”

We asked one woman to describe her gut reaction to the latest controversy.

Her response: "Outrage, honestly – because it's just a patent lie."

Ogles collected the money through a GoFundMe campaign back in 2014 using the photo of a stillborn child, promising that he would be purchasing 20 burial sites and donating them to families who lose their children. The burial site – which the GoFundMe page said would include a statue of Jesus – was to be called “Lincoln’s Place.”

That never happened.

...https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/donors-want-answers-from-tennessee-congressman-what-did-you-do-with-the-money

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