GOP Sen. Candidate Royce White Accused of ‘Outrageous’ Illegal Spending
A new complaint targets “outrageous” campaign spending by Republican senatorial candidate Royce White, arguing that his old campaign’s opaque reports and rampant splurges on a range of indulgences—including a $1,200 night at a Miami strip club—add up to a “wholesale failure” to follow the law and an attempt to cover it up.
The complaint, which the nonpartisan nonprofit Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), comes after The Daily Beast revealed that White—the Minnesota Republican Party’s officially endorsed Senate candidate—appears to have illegally spent tens of thousands of dollars in donations to his failed 2022 congressional campaign.
CLC also alleges that the campaign’s reports habitually violated disclosure requirements, omitting the recipients of large wire transfers and checks. The complaint extends those reporting allegations to White’s current Senate campaign, which to date has reported just one payment.