The Federal Election Commission asked the campaign for Rep. George Santos (R-NY) Thursday to clarify who its treasurer is—warning of possible criminal charges—after listing someone in the position who soon denied it, the latest in a growing list of dubious claims and lies dogging the new Congress member.
Santos came under fire this week after his campaign submitted paperwork to the FEC on Wednesday replacing his previous campaign treasurer, Nancy Marks, with Thomas Datwyler, who said after the filing became public that he turned down Santos’ job offer and wasn’t actually his treasurer.
The FEC sent a letter to Devolder-Santos for Congress, the lawmaker’s campaign committee, asking it to clarify the switch, noting it had come to the agency’s attention that he “may have failed to include the true, correct, or complete treasurer information” in his filing.
The agency noted that “knowingly and willfully making any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation” to a federal agency would run afoul of federal law.
The FEC “may report apparent violations to the appropriate law enforcement authorities,” the letter states, citing a federal statute against making false statements that’s punishable by up to five years in prison.
Datwyler, through his lawyer, told the FEC on Friday that he “is not the treasurer for this committee, did not file or authorize the filing of [the form], and did not authorize [the form] to be signed on his behalf,” the Daily...
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