Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) has paid her husband $30,000 for the first half of this year for private security services, according to her campaign’s second quarter report, which was filed a week past the deadline.
Between April and June, Bush paid her husband Cortney Merritts $17,500 in wage expenses for his “security services,” Fox News Digital reported. He received $12,000 for his services rendered in the first quarter of this year. Merritts has been working private security for Bush since January 2022, however, he did not receive his private security license — a requirement to perform private security in St. Louis city, covering all of Bush’s congressional territory — until February of this year.
U.S. Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) embrace during a rally on the eviction moratorium at the U.S. Capitol on August 03, 2021, in Washington, DC….
