NEW: MAGA Extremist Sam Brown Caught Lying, Misrepresenting His Business Record

On the campaign trail, MAGA extremist Sam Brown regularly touts the small business he says he built in Nevada – but new reporting has exposed Brown’s history of lying about and purposely misrepresenting his business career in order to finally win an election and distract voters from the fact that he only moved to Nevada a few years ago so he could run for office. 

Here are just some of the lies and exaggerations Brown has made about his business career during his latest failed run for office: 

• Brown’s “Nevada small business” was actually founded in Texas – six years before Brown even moved to Nevada.
  • Throughout his entire Senate campaign, Brown has repeatedly claimed that he started a small business in Nevada and made it a key part of his bio.
    • Brown told the Reno Gazette-Journal that he “chose” Nevada to start a business, and his personal super PAC ran an ad saying he started a “​​successful Nevada business.”
  • But according to the Nevada Independent, Brown registered his company in Texas in 2012.
    • Business records in Texas and Nevada, and even the company’s website, show that Brown founded it in 2012 when he still lived in Texas.

• Brown has presented himself as a small business owner, even though he sold his company in 2022 to focus on his political career. 
  • Brown still regularly refers to himself as a “small business owner” on the campaign trail despite the fact that he sold his stake in his company back in 2022.
  • During his failed 2022 Senate bid, Brown admitted that he sold his stake in the company and “left the private sector” in order to “concentrate” on his political career.

• Brown’s business was pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company, and he personally profited in his role as a middle-man for big drug companies.
  • According to The Nevadan, Brown’s company was a PBM, an industry “known to increase costs for patients and engage in anti-consumer practices.” Republicans and Democrats alike have heavily scrutinized them for their role in increasing the cost of prescription drugs for consumers.
  • In 2019, Brown’s company was even the subject of a complaint alleging it exploited federal guidelines to improperly win government contracts.
  • Brown’s company was a vocal proponent of the PBM industry, hosting several blog posts on its website defending the industry from criticism.
    • Brown has proceeded to oppose measures to lower prescription drug costs – which the pharmaceutical industry also opposed. 
  • According to his financial disclosures, Brown earned six-figure salaries for years from his business. 

• Even though Brown campaigns on making “painful” cuts to federal spending, his company received millions of dollars in federal contracts which earned Brown six-figure salaries for several years. 
  • Brown’s PBM company was awarded more than $7.3 million in federal contracts from 2019 to when Brown sold his stake in the company in 2022
  • Despite profiting from federal spending himself, Brown regularly rails against federal spending:
    • Brown said federal spending bills were “destroying this country.”
    • Brown said “federal spending has to get cut in a major, major way,” and recognized that those cuts were “going to be painful.”
    • Brown wrote that fiscal spending in Washington was “fiscal insanity.”

Nevada State Democratic Party Spokesperson Katharine Kurz:

“MAGA extremist Sam Brown is a hypocrite who regularly lies about and misrepresents his political record and now his business career in order to prop up his latest struggling campaign. Brown’s business experience was shilling for an industry widely known for raising prices on consumers, and he’s personally profited from the very federal spending he claims is destroying the country. Nevada has a proud small business community, and Sam Brown should be ashamed that he’s misrepresented himself to try to mislead voters into supporting his campaign.” 

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