Federal watchdog urges Federal Election Commission to investigate Rep. George Santos, alleging he violated federal campaign finance laws.
much of his biography -- including lying about attending the prestigious Horace Mann School, graduating from Baruch College and working for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup -- after he won the midterm election to represent New York's 3rd Congressional District. Four different law enforcement offices are looking into his public disclosures: the New York attorney general, Queens district attorney, Nassau district attorney and U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.
The complaint said it was implausible for Santos to claim he loaned his campaign $705,000, questioning "how he could have done so with his own funds" since his financial disclosure forms reported only $55,000 of income in 2020. U.S. Rep.-elect George Santos, R-N.Y.,talks to Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., in the House Chamber during the third day of elections for Speaker of the House at the Capitol on Jan. 5, 2023, in Washington, D.C."His claims of having earned millions of dollars in 2021 and 2022 from a supposed consulting business that he started in May 2021, Devolder Organization LLC, are vague, uncorroborated and non-credible in light of his many previous lies," the complaint said.
The complaint accused Santos "knowingly and willfully acted as a straw donor" funneling illegal contributions to his campaign from "unknown persons" who provided money disguised as income from Santos' business. "The volume and timing of Santos's dramatic increase in income and assets, the lack of a clear explanation of how he generated that income, his well-documented penchant for dishonesty, and the fact that he then used $705,000 from his sudden windfall to fund his subsequent congressional campaign strongly suggests that the rapid shift in Santos's finances was not a mere coincidence, but a direct result of unknown persons directly, and illegally, giving him money to run for federal...
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