In an emerging scandal, government whistleblowers have revealed that Democratic Senator Adam Schiff appears to have committed mortgage fraud, with his bank records showing that he may have violated state and federal laws by listing his property in Maryland as his primary residence, which violates a rule that requires primary residence to be listed in the state where a public official holds office.
For background, on October 16, 2024, whistleblowers Christine Bish and Darren Ellis filed a complaint against Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) accusing him of selling his home in Burbank, California, in 2003, based on his mortgage and tax records — and going on to illegally list a property he owned in Maryland as his primary residence, a move that potentially disqualifies him from holding office in the state of California.
Furthermore, Bish and Ellis filed a complaint with the House Ethics, Oversight, and Judiciary Committees regarding Sen. Schiff, explaining that the senator,” “despite claiming to live and represent the people in the state of California, filed and reaffirmed through refinancing documents” that his primary residence was in Maryland, not Calfornia, where he held office as a state representative before becoming a senator.
In addition, the complaint filed with the House committees noted that Sen. Schiff had acknowledged what he called a “mistake” during an Ethics Committee hearing; the senator claimed that he had accidentally listed his Maryland home as his primary residence. However, the complaint also pointed out that after he sold his home in California in 2003, he “registered as a California voter.”
Furthermore, the whistleblowers called Sen. Schiff out for allegedly violating the rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, which state, “No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained the Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.”
Commenting on the scandal, Chanel Rion of One America Network (OAN) said during a broadcast of her show “Fine Point” that Sen. Schiff may be guilty of “violating state and federal laws, so they say,” adding, “Now, many lawmakers keep a place in Washington, especially if they represent a state from far away, like Schiff does, but only one of their homes can be considered their primary residence.”
Moreover, Rion said that based on the senator’s tax and mortgage records, he was guilty of “hypocrisy,” adding that the senator ran “against a backdrop where California homelessness has hit record highs and the cost of living has driven Californians out.” She added, “Just this year, Adam Schiff’s Democrats pushed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. off the ballot in New York over his debates about his various residences. Would they dare hold these same standards up to Adam Schiff?”
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Responding to Rion’s take on the scandal, conservative commentator Gunther Eagleman was extremely blunt, writing, “Adam Schiff belonged in prison years ago.” Another commenter chimed in, “I have known this for a long time. The problem is, knowing this doesn’t seem to matter. By so many measures, he should be in prison. NO ONE will stand up to him and I wonder why.”
Watch Rion’s response to the scandal:
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