FEC Report Shows George Santos Could Face SERIOUS Legal Trouble

The FEC has released their information on embattled Republican George Santos, and his campaign expenditures have left experts believing that he broke the law. The campaign reported dozens of expenses that were all ONE PENNY below the legal threshold to have to keep receipts, which absolutely blows the odds of probability out of the water. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's in the reports and what it could mean for Santos' legal problems.

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So more trouble for embattled Republican George Santos, as it has been revealed by the F E C in his financial disclosures that somehow, some way, when he was running for Congress, Mr. Santos had 37 different expenses listed on his report for the exact same amount of money. And that exact amount of money was $199 and 99 cents, 37 different transactions for a penny under $200 at multiple different businesses. And now, campaign finance experts are scratching their heads thinking, huh, this looks illegal as hell. Because the way campaign finance law works, if you spend under $200, you do not have to save that receipt. You can just write it on the form. I spent $199 99 cents at Best Buy. And because it's under $200, you don't have to give him a receipt. You don't have to prove that that is where that money went $200 and above. You gotta turn in the receipts.

So these experts say that it's likely Santos knew that this was the limit. So he just put a bunch of expenses on there for 1 99 99 so that he could not have to turn in receipts, because that's probably not where the money went. Here it is, uh, the night, the 199 99, uh, uh, payments were to Uber, Walgreens, Walmart, best Buy, Delta Airlines, uh, a restaurant and more. Let me ask you this real quick. Okay? I get, you know, every now and then, sometimes you'll be shopping and your total comes out to like a hundred dollars even, and you're like, oh, wow, that's cool. Or sometimes it could come out to $199 and 99 cents. That's possible. Now, the probability of you as an individual going out over the course of a year making 37 purchases, that all total $199 and 99 cents, that is improbable. I mean, the, the odds are absolutely not showing that that is really something that could happen. And here's the thing. Some of these places where the money was spent, like Delta Airlines, how did you buy anything from Delta Airlines for under a hundred and, uh, under $200? How? Like we, we know that's not a plane ticket. Delta doesn't really sell much of anything else unless you're buying a Delta brand jacket. So that's the one to me that really sticks out, is like, hold up.

That's not even possible. You can't go spend $199 and 99 cents at Delta. If it was a plane ticket, it'd be a lot more, and Delta doesn't, you know, really sell other things. So I think that's the big red flag, is the Delta payment. But either way, Santos is just mired in scandal after scandal, after scandal. And eventually one of these, you would think kinda like Donald Trump, you're like, one of these has to take him down. I mean, technically because of the speaker debacle, he hasn't even been sworn in yet. And by the time it comes time to swear him in, the guy may have already been arrested because of what's happening with Brazilian authorities. And republicans still are like, Nope, we're gonna see them. We're totally good with that because even if he is corrupt, most Republicans are too and they just don't care anymore.