Rep. Andy Ogles' exaggerated resume might not be as scandalous as that of George Santos. But his troubles are cringeworthy — and they're getting worse. (via MaddowBlog)
But the Post also appears to have uncovered an old résumé the congressman submitted in which he claimed to have run a consulting firm that “cannot be found in Tennessee corporate records.” Similarly, Ogles said his firm represented “Fortune 500 companies,” but there doesn’t appear to be any evidence to support this, either.
As part of the same claims, he said his company did lucrative consulting work for Merrill Lynch, but that’s also suspect: The Post found that Ogles worked for less than a year as a stockbroker in a Merrill office in Nashville, but that’s not in line with the claims from his résumé. The same article, which has not been independently confirmed by MSNBC or NBC News, noted that Ogles also claimed to have served on the boards of directors of the YMCA of Franklin, Nurses for Newborns in Tennessee, and the city of Franklin. None of these claims appears to be true — and the city of Franklin doesn’t even have a board.last month, in isolation, these individual falsehoods might not seem especially scandalous.
GOP leaders still haven’t commented or expressed any concerns about Ogles’ related dishonesty, though if recent history is any guide, they’ll wave it off as irrelevant. With a narrow majority in the House, Republican leaders apparently don’t believe they can afford to care too much about whether some of their members lied to get ahead.
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