{"id":1784344,"date":"2022-12-22T15:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T20:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784344"},"modified":"2022-12-22T15:03:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T20:03:54","slug":"wild-spending-house-dem-lands-1-million-for-former-client-implicated-in-child-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wild-spending-house-dem-lands-1-million-for-former-client-implicated-in-child-rape-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Spending: House Dem Lands $1 Million for Former Client Implicated in Child Rape Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwild-spending-house-dem-lands-1-million-for-former-client-implicated-in-child-rape-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784344&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-12.57.28-PM-e1535129884268.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Susan Wild (D., Pa.) is poised to secure $1 million in taxpayer funding for a children&#8217;s mental health asylum she defended in a molestation case.<\/p>\n<p>The $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill has $1 million earmarked for renovations for KidsPeace, a Pennsylvania nonprofit Wild represented in a 2005 lawsuit filed by a former patient who was anally raped by a counselor. Wild, who requested funding for KidsPeace earlier this year, argued in the lawsuit that KidsPeace should not be on the hook for a settlement payout to the patient because the rape was a &#8220;medical incident&#8221; that should be covered by its insurance plan, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/rep-susan-wild-defended-a-childrens-psych-hospital-in-sodomy-case-now-she-wants-to-grant-1-million-for-the-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. She said KidsPeace did not have a &#8220;crystal ball&#8221; to prevent the counselor&#8217;s &#8220;malfeasance,&#8221; though the counselor was charged years earlier in the suffocation death of a 12-year-old patient.<\/p>\n<p>The earmark for KidsPeace is listed in the 4,155-page omnibus bill that senators are expected to approve this week. The bill includes $772.5 billion in non-defense discretionary spending on earmarks like the KidsPeace renovation. The bill includes tens of millions more on spending on other pet projects, including $477,000 in spending at Equity Labs for &#8220;antiracism virtual labs&#8221; and $3.6 million on the &#8220;Michelle Obama Trail&#8221; in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Wild&#8217;s ties to KidsPeace came under scrutiny during her campaign, which she won by roughly 6,000 votes over Republican Lisa Scheller. A Republican group, citing the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>\u2018s reporting, detailed Wild&#8217;s advocacy for KidsPeace in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLFSuperPAC\/status\/1585987246540214272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a TV ad<\/a> and asserted that &#8220;Wild is pushing for a million dollars in taxpayer money for the hospital, the same hospital that paid her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/susan-gone-wild-pennsylvania-dem-zooms-into-campaign-event-while-driving-video-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zooming into a campaign event while driving<\/a>, Wilds lashed out at the GOP group over the ad, telling them to &#8220;shut up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wild, who chairs the House Ethics Committee, selected KidsPeace out of a pool of hundreds of applications submitted to her office for congressional spending, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/wild.house.gov\/sites\/wild.house.gov\/files\/wysiwyg_uploaded\/Wild%20Financial%20Disclosure%20Letters%20combined_2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a letter<\/a> her office released earlier this year. Wild said in a request to the House Appropriations Committee on behalf of KidsPeace that she does not have a financial relationship with the organization. Wild did not disclose her past legal work for KidsPeace. She has also maintained close ties to the nonprofit. She\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KidsPeace.org\/posts\/2389518977794766\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toured<\/a> the KidsPeace Orchard Hills facility with KidsPeace lobbyist Caren Chaffee in 2019. She also praised KidsPeace for housing more than 100 unaccompanied children from Central America.<\/p>\n<p>Wild&#8217;s office did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Susan Wild (D., Pa.) is poised to secure $1 million in taxpayer funding for a children&#8217;s mental health asylum she defended in a molestation case.<br \/>\nThe post Wild Spending: House Dem Lands $1 Million for Former Client Implicated in Child Rape Case appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1784348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[9369,6962,4092,5375,6716,8811,6244,3692,4089,3653,11278,11279,4116,4948,3834,8711],"class_list":["post-1784344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-for","tag-the","tag-beacon","tag-case","tag-child","tag-client","tag-dem","tag-former","tag-free","tag-house","tag-implicated","tag-lands","tag-million","tag-rape","tag-spending","tag-wild"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}