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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 part of what i

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 Olson”—some campai

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