Rep. Corrine Brown, the Democratic Congresswoman indicted last week for running a fraudulent charity scam, thinks the FBI might have prevent the Orlando nightclub massacre if the bureau hadn’t wasted their investigative resources on her.
“These are the same agents that were not able to do a thorough investigation of [Orlando shooter Omar Mateen], and we ended up with 50 people dead,” Brown said.
Federal investigators have accused Brown and her chief of staff of soliciting funds for a fraudulent charitable foundation in order to enrich themselves.
Brown’s lawyer, Elizabeth White, echoed the Congresswoman’s remarks about the FBI in a statement.
“Perhaps had [the Department of Justice] chosen to devote its resources more thoughtfully, 50 innocent people would be alive today,” White said.
Over the weekend, Brown appeared to equate the recent shootings of unarmed black men by police officers, and the deaths of five police officers in Dallas, with her appearance in federal court on Friday.
“Last week was very rough,” Brown wrote on her blog. “Two black men were needlessly gunned down by police; five Dallas police officers were slain by a demented man, and on Friday I had to appear in federal court.”