The embattled congressman's 2022 campaign expenses include over $350,000 in unitemized spending with no information about their dates or purposes.
to his religious identity. The freshman representative's campaign finances have also been thoroughly investigated, turning up odd irregularities and sizeable sums of money that cannot be accounted for., the newspaper combed through several months of Santos's campaign spending disclosures, turning up strange expenditures and amounts that shifted from month-to-month.
In a filing from January 2022, Santos's campaign disclosed $266.66 that had been spent the previous month on five different Uber and taxi rides in a single day, as well as $60.54 at Tokyo Sushi and Grill in Auburn Hills, Michigan, part of the nearly $90,000 he reportedly spent that month. However, in filings from the following April, the Republican's campaign amended those amounts, now claiming to have spent $445.22 on the rides and $199.99 on the meal.
Representative George Santos, a New York Republican, is seen. Inset, an image of sushi. Santos's campaign spending disclosures revealed odd expenditures for a sushi meal and several Uber rides to increased in value over the course of multiple filings.The amount of $199.99 is significant and appeared frequently in Santos's filings, as it is two cents below the amount at which the law requires political campaigns to provide receipts for expenses.
The report also noted that, by April of last year, the campaign had racked up over $250,000 in spending from around 1,200 payments of $199.99 to anonymous sources. All of these individual items were wiped away in the May filing, though the $250,000 in unspecified spending remained. By the latter months of his 2022 campaign, the congressman had racked up a total of $365,399.08 in non-itemized spending. This, thecalculated, would have required transactions with around 1,800 entities. The filings overall list only around 270 entities in itemized reports.Santos's litany of lies and suspicious finances have prompted mass calls for his resignation, including from
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