Mendacity Rep. George Santos’ marketing campaign changed the New York Republican’s longtime treasurer on Wednesday with a person who says he didn’t conform to take the job, in keeping with a report.
New filings with the Federal Election Fee title Thomas Datwyler because the treasurer of Santos’ marketing campaign and 6 political committees aligned with the embattled consultant, the New York Occasions studies.
Nevertheless, a lawyer for Datwyler mentioned Wednesday that Santos’ group listed him as treasurer with out his authorization.
“On Monday, we knowledgeable the Santos marketing campaign that Mr. Datwyler wouldn’t be taking up as treasurer,” Datwyler’s lawyer, Derek Ross, advised the information outlet. “And there seems to be some disconnect between that dialog and this submitting.”
Datwyler beforehand labored alongside Santos’ chief of employees, Charles Lovett, on the failed Senate marketing campaign of Ohio Republican Josh Mandel. Datwyler was changed as treasurer on the Mandel marketing campaign and accused by Mandel’s group in a letter to the FEC of being liable for a “beautiful variety of inexplicable reporting errors,” in keeping with the New York Occasions.
It’s unclear why the Santos marketing campaign is changing former treasurer Nancy Marks, who has been concerned with Santos since his first congressional run in 2020 and labored as treasurer for former New York GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin’s failed marketing campaign for governor.
On Wednesday, Santos’ group amended a number of marketing campaign finance paperwork to indicate {that a} $500,000 mortgage he made to his 2022 congressional marketing campaign didn’t come from “private funds of the candidate.” It’s unknown the place these funds he lent his marketing campaign got here from.
Santos is dealing with strain to resign from his congressional seat after his admission to The Submit final month that he lied about graduating school and dealing for high funding corporations.
He’s presently below investigation on the federal, state, and county stage, reportedly over a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} in loans made to his marketing campaign coming off a job the place he reported incomes $55,000 a yr in wage.
