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In September 2020, George Santos congressional campaign reported that Victoria and Jonathan Regor had each contributed $2,800the maximum amountto his first bid for a House seat. Their listed address was 45 New Mexico Street in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
A search of various databases reveals no one in the United States named Victoria or Jonathan Regor. Moreover, there is nobody by any name living at 45 New Mexico Street in Jackson. That address doesnt exist. There is a New Mexico Street in Jackson, but the numbers end in the 20s, according to Google Maps and a resident of the street.
Santos 2020 campaign finance reports also list a donor named Stephen Berger as a $2,500 donor and said he was a retiree who lived on Brandt Road in Brawley, California. But a spokesperson for William Brandt, a prominent rancher and Republican donor, tells Mother Jones that Brandt has lived at that address for at least 20 years and neither he or his wife (the only other occupant [at the Brandt Road home]) have made any donations to George Santos. He does not know Stephen Berger nor has Stephen Berger ever lived at
Brandt Road.
The Regor and Berger contributions are among more than a dozen major donations to the 2020 Santos campaign for which the name or the address of the donor cannot be confirmed, a Mother Jones investigation found. A separate $2,800 donation was attributed in Santos reports filed with the Federal Election Commission to a friend of Santos who says he did not give the money.
Under federal campaign finance law, it is illegal to donate money using a false name or the name of someone else. Its called a contribution in the name of another, says Saurav Ghosh, the director for federal campaign finance reform at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Its something that is explicitly prohibited under federal law.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/we-tried-to-call-the-top-donors-to-george-santos-2020-campaign-many-dont-seem-to-exist/
onecaliberal
(32,777 posts)grumpyduck
(6,222 posts)Hate it when that happens...
housecat
(3,121 posts)ancianita
(35,933 posts)More likely, Koch's Aegis, whose donor list is bigger than the RNC's.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Aegis_Strategic#Aegis_Strategic_Founds_Aegis_PAC
KPN
(15,635 posts)Response to RandySF (Original post)
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chowder66
(9,055 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,167 posts).
you still have access to wire transfers.
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PlutosHeart
(1,260 posts)2naSalit
(86,330 posts)Cha
(296,848 posts)come from, Spurious Con .?
yardwork
(61,539 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,502 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,078 posts)1. Ben Dover
2. Amanda Huginkiss
3. I. P. Freely
4. Ibn Farteen
Captain Zero
(6,784 posts)nt
sprinkleeninow
(20,215 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,637 posts)Permanut
(5,561 posts)Barbara Seville
Bud Light
Carrie Oakey
Earl E. Bird
Gene Poole
Jack Hammer
Ken Dahl
Lily Pond
Moe De Grasse
Pearle E. Gates
Warren Peace
And I'm sure there are a lot of others.
patphil
(6,150 posts)TlalocW
(15,374 posts)Don Keyface
mbusby
(823 posts)louis-t
(23,267 posts)Thanks to The Simpsons.
BOSSHOG
(37,014 posts)Kev says he knows the constitution therefore he aint doing nothing bout santos. Such a wealth of knowledge about those who dont know how to lead, govern or manage money. But they do have conservative values.
Marcuse
(7,446 posts)NBachers
(17,081 posts)rubbersole
(6,660 posts)Thanks to Bill O'Reilly via Stephanie Miller Show...
LakeArenal
(28,802 posts)ancianita
(35,933 posts)LakeArenal
(28,802 posts)ancianita
(35,933 posts)LakeArenal
(28,802 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,741 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(7,826 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,870 posts)I don't think this is Putin money per se. He was more thoroughly at arm's length for other candidates and the NRA.
This smell like a poorly conceived money laundering deal. Like the gang that couldn't scam straight: a bunch of amateurs who don't know how to do it the right way made it up according to the rumors they had heard, assuming they wouldn't get caught because anyone else in politics is of course similarly corrupt. in short any BS they manufactured would look just like what any other politician submitted and wouldn't be checked out.
Emile
(22,487 posts)Chances are nothing will ever happen to him.
Takket
(21,528 posts)if you are going to take donations to launder money somehow, why would you use names that don't even exist and streets that don't exist? seems it would take all of 5 seconds to google the name "john smith", find ones that lives a 10 maple street in some city, and just put down that name. at least it is tied to real person if someone starts snooping around. granted that won't help you if they CALL john smith, but at least you won't make it EASY for anyone to figure out what you did