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Originally Posted by garhkal
For someone who's supposedly a 4th generation Irish american, i laughed when i read the reason he's called Bato, is its a spanish shortened version of roberto...
BUT i agree, the media IS seeming to ignore it was his daddy dearest who got him out of both a DUI and a theft charge.
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It's Beto actually. and i noted that recently too. i'd be very interested in the details about the burglary charge. no mention of theft, presumably it could have been trespassing. i wonder how drunk he was that night to pull a stunt like that?
you could explain this away as youthful indiscretion, including the DUI.
O'Rourke was arrested by
University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) police in 1995 on burglary charges after jumping a fence on the university’s property.
[13][14] The UTEP police department later declined to pursue charges.
[14] In 1998 O'Rourke was arrested on DWI charges, but the charges were later dismissed in 1999 after he completed a court-recommended DWI program.
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this however isn't easy to wash away.
In 2013, LegiStorm reported that O'Rourke may have violated the
Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, which prohibits members of Congress from participating in the
initial public offering (IPO) of company stocks. O'Rourke had purchased seven stocks, including stock in
Twitter, at IPO prices, seeing a 39 percent increase on shares that he sold either the same day or within days of IPOs. After being contacted by LegiStorm,
O'Rourke reported himself to the
United States House Committee on Ethics.
[80][81] The case was closed by the ethics committee after O'Rourke acknowledged that he may have violated the law and agreed to sell his remaining IPO shares and surrender his $7,136 in profit to the U.S. Treasury.
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he was 40 when that happened. kinda hard to sell youthful indiscretion yeah?
