Following scandals of Santos’ fabricated campaign biography, more serious revelations suggest he may have violated campaign finance laws — a graver misconduct that could result in civil penalties, criminal prosecution, expulsion from Congress or all three.
The Devolder Organization was in the “capital introduction” business, Santos “What I will do is I will go look out there within my Rolodex and be like: ‘Hey, are you looking for a plane?’ ‘Are you looking for a boat?’ I just put that feeler out there,” Santos said.
“If you’re looking at a $20 million yacht, my referral fee there can be anywhere between $200,000 and $400,000,” Santos told Semafor. The Devolder company was one of several organizations authorized to manage and control Red Strategies USA — separate from Redstone Strategies — according to documents reported against Santos. FEC reports show just one political committee payingRed Strategies USA: Tina Forte for Congress, the Republican candidate who challenged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez . It is unclear how much, if any, of the $1110,320 paid from the Forte campaign ultimately went to Devolder.
Richard Briffault, a Columbia Law School professor specializing in campaign finance, said those loans may be the most consequential piece of the Santos puzzle, from a criminal justice standpoint, if they are found to have been “an illegal means of disguising illegal contributions.”
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