https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/andy-ogles-scandal-maga-trump-profile-gop-sad-loan-santos/
Two decades before arriving in Congress, Ogles, then entering his 30s, owned a restaurant and doughnut place in Franklin, Tennessee. When a local reporter showed up to write about his shop, Daylight Donuts, in 2001, Ogles was described as a student of German, Russian, and Japanese with international business ambitions who ended up selling doughnuts by chance. It would later emerge that Ogles only took an introductory college Japanese class, earning a B; there is no record of him studying or speaking German or Russian. While Ogles has asserted as a congressman, including during a meeting of the House Financial Services Committee, that he is an economist, the same transcript shows he took just one community college economics course, earning a C.
By 2004, following his first unsuccessful congressional run, the Tennessee Department of Revenue had filed a lien against Daylight Donuts and Ogles for failing to pay the business’s taxes. Later, on a 2009 résumé that Ogles submitted for a job—and that was later obtained by investigative reporter Phil Williams of Nashville’s NewsChannel 5—the future congressman omitted any mention of the shop. But that résumé did claim he’d been a vice president at Franklin Investment & Holding from 1995 to 2002, where he boasted of achieving Ponzi-like “continued growth of 18% to 25% annually” despite the concurrent burst of the dot-com bubble. The résumé also stated that he went on to become executive vice president at E.Net Media & Consulting. But according to the Washington Post, Franklin Investment & Holding existed for only one year, and there are no records to prove that E.Net ever did. The only other job listed was Ogles’ failed 2002 run for Congress.
The community work Ogles listed did not hold up, either. He claimed to be on the board of directors for the city of Franklin and the local branch of the YMCA. The city has no board of directors, and, according to the Post, he never served on the YMCA board.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/revealed-tennessee-rep-andy-ogles-faces-ethics-complaint-comparison-to-george-santos
"Unexplained inconsistencies in Rep. Ogles’ reported finances and allegations of him misrepresenting his background raise fundamental questions for voters about the transparency of their elected representative."
Specifically, in its complaint, the CLC notes the Maury County Republican's claim to have personally loaned $320,0000 to his 2022 campaign for Congress, "but Rep. Ogles’ financial disclosure reports do not disclose assets that would allow him to make this loan."
As NewsChannel 5 previously reported, on financial disclosures filed with the U.S. House of Representatives, Ogles did not disclose any checking or savings accounts.
In a footnote, the CLC notes that "bank accounts only must be reported in a candidate or member's financial disclosure report if they are interest bearing." "While it is possible that Rep. Ogles has a non-interest-bearing bank account, it would be highly unlikely that such an account would contain such a substantial amount of money like the $320,000 he loaned to his campaign," it adds.
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