John Ratcliffe’s Zombie Campaign Keeps Paying His Wife $3000 A Month To Manage Its Books – Forbes

Then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe waits to board Marine One with President Donald Trump in December 2020.

The zombie campaign of former Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) has continued to pay his wife $3,000 a month for compliance services, according to records with the Federal Election Commission.

Ratcliffe resigned from Congress in May 2020 to become Donald Trumps director of national intelligence, a position he kept through the end of the administration.

But Ratcliffe still controls his congressional campaigns account, which has $310,000 of cash on hand. That account has now paid his wife, Michele Ratcliffe, $21,000. Those payments account for 35% of all the money the campaign has spent in 2021.

Michele Ratcliffe is a partner at the Rockwall, Texas law firm of Lamberth Ratcliffe Covington, where she works on estate planning and assists victims of cyber crimes. An FEC filing from December 2013 lists her as the original treasurer for her husbands campaign. She held that position until December 2014. The campaigns only previous payments to her were small reimbursements. According to FEC records, no other political campaigns have retained her services.

The Ratcliffe campaign notified the FEC that Michele Ratcliffe had resumed the treasurer role on March 15, 2021, the same day she received her first $3,000 payment. Forbes first reported on the payments in July. They havent stopped since then.

The campaign has also recently spent money on a storage-unit rental and two meals at the Four Seasons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Neither John nor Michele Ratcliffe responded to inquiries.

The zombie campaign of former Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) has paid his wife $3,000 a month since March 2021.

I took an unusual route to get here. In a past life, I worked as a travel and food writer, which is how I got the assignment in 2016 to cover the grand opening of the

I took an unusual route to get here. In a past life, I worked as a travel and food writer, which is how I got the assignment in 2016 to cover the grand opening of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., just a couple miles from my home. When Trump won the election and refused to divest his business, I stayed on the story, starting a newsletter called 1100 Pennsylvania (named after the hotels address) and contributed to Vanity Fair, Politico and NBC News. Im still interested in Trump, but Ive broadened my focus to follow the money connected to other politicians as wellboth Republicans and Democrats.

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