Following the footsteps of his colleagues George Santos and Anna Paulina Luna, freshman Tennessee Republican Congressman Andy Ogles has been exposed as a total fucking fraud in an in-depth report by Nashville CBS affiliate WTVF detailing Ogles’ volumnuous resume fabrications.
First there’s his claim to be an “economist.” Ogles got a bachelor’s in international relations, with minors in psychology and English from Middle Tennessee State University – in 2007, at age 36 – which isn’t economics. His website says he got the degree in “policy and economics.” Then there’s his claim to be “a former member of law enforcement, worked in international sex crimes, specifically child trafficking,” when in reality he was an unpaid volunteer Williams County, Tennessee deputy reserve sheriff for two years before being fired for not showing up for required training. “There is nothing in Mr. Ogles training or personnel file that indicates he had any involvement in ‘international sex trafficking’ in his capacity as a reserve deputy,” a Williams Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said.
Ogles’ experience with fighting sex trafficking amounts to a part-time position with a charity called Abolition International founded by some gospel singer with helps sex trafficking victims. Ogles was paid a grand total of $4,000 for his work in 2011 with the group, which wasn’t the kind of operation that exposes and takes down international sex trafficking rings. People associated with the group didn’t want to get into it with Ogles, except to say that calling himself the chief operating officer was a gross exaggeration at best. So yeah, here’s yet another fine upstanding citizen in the House GOP.