YIKES! Adam Crybaby Kinzinger On Board Of Ukrainian Org That Scammed People Of Millions

Ummm, looks like Adam Crybaby Kinzinger needs to explain himself at once:

YIKES.

Raise your hand if you’re shocked that Adam was on the board of a freaking Ukraine org that scammed people out of millions. I’ll wait over here.

And now there’s a federal investigation into Ripley’s (believe it or not! <<< see what I did there?) – the name of the organization.

Here’s some backstory from Red State:

The story starts with a man named James Vasquez who allegedly lied about his background. Vasquez was heavily promoted by Kinzinger online (the two also met in person). Further, Vasquez works for (or did until recently) an organization called “Ripley’s Heroes,” which purports to buy and send military equipment to Ukraine such as night vision goggles and communications devices.

Here’s some background from The Post Millennial about how Vasquez’s story fell apart.

Former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger advocated for Vasquez, urging Twitter to verify his account, and posed in pictures with him.

Only the story of Vasquez joining the Ukrainian Army turned out to be fake. “Kinzinger’s favorite Ukraine hero just deleted his account after it came out he is a fraud,” Jack Posobiec said.

Malcolm Nance, also a supporter of Vasquez, responded to the allegations against Vasquez, as revealed by a current member of the Ukrainian armed forces, saying that he and others had advised Vasquez to “get off Twitter, get his life in order & come back to support [Ukraine] in a legal construct. He took that advice.

Now, Ripley’s Heroes is under federal investigation for allegedly misappropriating funds and making illegal shipments to Ukraine. Kinzinger is on the Board of Advisors for the organization.

Last spring, a volunteer group called Ripley’s Heroes said it had spent approximately $63,000 on night-vision and thermal optics. Some of the equipment was subject to American export restrictions because, in the wrong hands, it could give enemies a battlefield advantage.

Frontline volunteers said Ripley’s delivered the equipment to Ukraine without required documentation listing the actual buyers and recipients. Recently, the federal authorities began investigating the shipments, U.S. officials said.

In his defense, the group’s founder, a retired U.S. Marine named Lt. Col. Hunter Ripley Rawlings IV, provided deal documents to The Times. But those records show that, just as the volunteers said, Ripley’s was not disclosed to the State Department as the buyer.

Now, Ripley’s Heroes is under federal investigation for allegedly misappropriating funds and making illegal shipments to Ukraine. Kinzinger is on the Board of Advisors for the organization.

Why you would EVER put Kinzinger on a Board of ANYTHING is beyond me. But I suppose that’s neither here nor there.

It’s probable that Adam will cry like a wee girl and deny any culpability (for all we know he doesn’t have any?), because we all know that while he doesn’t have vast corporate experience, he does has VAST experience crying on cue.