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“Obviously, the circumstances here are a little extenuating,” Santos said.

Congressional candidate Joe Kent has tried to distance himself from a former top aide with white nationalist ties. How Kent is operating his campaign is making that effort easier.

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesWhen George Santos’ congressional campaign came under federal investigation this year, no one wanted to be his treasurer—to the extent that one person took the unprecedented step of asking for a criminal investigation into how his name appeared on the forms in the first place.Now, the lawyer who filed that request has taken another unprecedented step by retracting those statements, claiming his own client gave him false information as ...

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GetyPay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.In his brief stint on the national stage, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has spun some of the most preposterous fictions of any U.S. political figure in modern history. So when Santos listed a new treasurer that no one in this insular world of campaign finance had ever heard of—with the innocuous name “Andrew Olso...

He reported someone setting up a congressional campaign for him. Turns out, he hired someone to do just that.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/FECDan Cox, the right-winger who lost the Maryland governor’s race last year, has been telling the press that he doesn’t know who was behind a July 3 statement of candidacy in his name. He even said he alerted the Federal Election Commission to the matter.It should be a short investigation: The person was the treasurer Cox had hired to do just that.The Daily Beast has obtained emails and text messages that show Cox planned...

Santos has been operating without a permanent treasurer on his campaign for more than two weeks. The job comes with a lot of risks.

Rep. George Santos’ campaign reported a new treasurer plus payments for legal services and outstanding debts at an Italian restaurant in Queens in its year-end report to the FEC.

Denham, who was an ally of new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and a member of his leadership team before losing reelection in 2018, is the second big get from the Hill in as many years for Dentons.

Nancy Marks filed her resignation from her roles in Santoss campaign and other committees.