Congressman Hunter used campaign funds to finance, among other lavish things, over a thousand dollars of purchases on Steam. Image via Getty Images.
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A US Congressman spent campaign funds on Steam games

Congressman Duncan D. Hunter was found in investigations to have misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign funding for personal use, buying luxurious items and vacation trips with the money. He also recently confessed he used campaign funds to make Steam purchases upwards of a thousand dollars, though he had initially tried to excuse it as his son's mistake.

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Fri Dec 06 - PCGamer

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