More than a dozen people identified as top donors to GOP Congressman George Santos’ campaign who collectively account for over tens of thousands of dollars raised from individual donors in 2020 “don’t seem to exist.”
earlier this month, on the same day that the CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission regarding Santos’ 2022 campaign, the group Citizens United filed complaints with the DOJ, FEC, and Office of Congressional Ethics .on Friday framed the DOJ Public Integrity Section’s request that the FEC refrain from taking action against the congressman and turn over any relevant documents as “the clearest sign to date that federal prosecutors are examining Santos’ campaign finances.
“Basically they don’t want two sets of investigators tripping over each other,” said David M. Mason, a former FEC commissioner. “And they don’t want anything that the FEC, which is a civil agency, does to potentially complicate their criminal case.” The request “indicates there’s an active criminal investigation” examining issues that overlap with complaints against Santos before the FEC, said Brett Kappel, a campaign finance lawyer at D.C.-based Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg., Santos and his attorney did not respond while an FEC representative said the agency “cannot comment on enforcement” and a DOJ spokesperson declined to weigh in.
However, critics of the embattled congressman — who is also being investigated by the offices of Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James and the Republican district attorneys in Nassau and Queens counties — had plenty to say. It's been said before, but winning this election was the basically worst thing that could have happened to Santos. At this point, there's pretty much no one in DC or NY who is *not* looking into him and his web of lies:
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