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The Daily Beast reports:
When 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 increasingly appears to be a cover-up of a sham operation to mask the true identity of the person running Santos’ books.
In a series of identical apology letters to the Federal Election Commission on Oct. 26, the lawyer, Derek Ross, rescinded correspondence and “other communications” that he’d submitted in January on behalf of his client, professional Republican political accountant Tom Datwyler. Brett Kappel, campaign finance lawyer at Harmon Curran, noted that Ross’ recent letters bear the letterhead of Elections LLC, a law firm with extensive ties to Donald Trump’s political operation—including an alleged witness tampering scandal involving key Jan. 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson.
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Fun fact: George Santos’ shadow campaign treasurer has a long rap-sheet of FEC fines related to work for other clients, is under criminal investigation for alleged violations of Mississippi election law & also worked for another recently-indicted candidate https://t.co/U0x4VxGBZJ https://t.co/Cww1KT9NHX
— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) October 30, 2023