Roger Sollenberger/The Daily Beast:
Damning Ethics Report Solves the Big George Santos Question: Where the Money Came From
But The Daily Beast’s review of the committee report and its underlying evidence has found that House investigators actually did solve the mystery. In doing so, they uncovered what appears to be an illegal pass-through scheme involving hundreds of thousands of dollars in illicit contributions that Santos funneled to his campaign from business clients—perhaps without their knowledge.
Santos also appears to have taken the scheme a step further, personally reaping tens of thousands of dollars after he was elected to Congress.