Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), can’t go a day without blathering about some indignity she believes teachers face—especially low pay. Most recently, she wrote a breathless piece for Time magazine, “America’s Teachers Can’t Afford to Teach.”

It’s worth noting that while Weingarten bemoans low teacher pay, the money she collects from them goes to fund her hefty salary. According to the Illinois Policy Institute, Weingarten’s current annual income is $514,488, making her a one-percenter.

And now, she is being investigated by Congress over a book she wrote last year, Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy, which she claims will “empower us and give us hope.”

The investigation focuses on Weingarten’s alleged use of dues paid by union members to cover the costs of writing the book. Freedom Foundation researcher Maxford Nelsen combed through the AFT’s most recent annual financial disclosures and uncovered a detailed accounting of how those dues were used to produce the book.

House Republicans allege a New York law firm that says it legally reviewed the book pro bono actually received nearly $1 million in fees for other work from the AFT, and the firm’s attorney is likewise thanked for reviewing the manuscript in Weingarten’s book’s acknowledgments. The AFT also spent $6,000 on fact checking Weingarten’s book, $5,212 for a single-author photograph by a Washington-based photographer, and $64,090 on a literary agency that lists AFT, not Weingarten, as its client.

Nearly 30 AFT staff members are thanked in the acknowledgments, which also prompted questions about their role in the book’s creation. Meanwhile, travel costs for Weingarten’s nationwide promotional tour are not itemized separately, but were undoubtedly substantial.

In other words, teachers paid for nearly everything related to Weingarten’s book; Weingarten may not have contributed a single dollar to the enterprise. On July 7, Congress began an investigation.

Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Rick W. Allen (R-Ga.) are demanding answers from Weingarten following reports that teachers’ union dues were used to fund the production, publication, and promotion of a book from which she personally benefited, including through royalties and other proceeds.

“The prospect that rank-and-file educators’ dues may have financed a project that generated private financial gain raises serious questions about transparency, accountability, and fiduciary responsibility within one of the nation’s largest labor organizations,” Wallberg and Allen wrote in a letter to Weingarten.

Weingarten is being asked to provide the House committee with a laundry list of information by July 21. The committee is requesting “documents sufficient to show all AFT expenditures related to the writing, editing, fact-checking, legal review, publication, marketing, promotion, distribution, and tour activities associated with the book,” along with eight additional items.

“The Committee also has a responsibility to ensure that organizations representing American workers operate transparently and that union members receive a full accounting of how their dues are utilized,” Wallberg and Allen’s letter concludes.

Thus Weingarten, who maintains that teachers earn so little they can’t afford to teach, is accused of pilfering a sizable share of their union dues to write a book that casts teachers as victims. We will soon know what Congress finds out about this alleged scheme.