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NextImg:OnlyFans, Hermes, and personal gain: The Santos Ethics report


A damning House Ethics Committee report on embattled Rep. George Santos (R-NY) found that he spent campaign contributions on OnlyFans, Botox, and for “personal financial profit,” leading to an expulsion resolution and a referral to the Department of Justice.

The committee released its 56-page report on Thursday detailing its findings from the monthslong investigation into Santos’s actions, with lawmakers citing “substantial evidence” that Santos “blatantly stole” from his campaign and used the funds for his own personal gain. The report was opened earlier this year after it was discovered Santos repeatedly lied about his personal and professional experience on the campaign trail and failed to disclose required financial reports.

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Many of the statements, which included false claims about where he went to school, companies he worked for, and that his grandparents had died in the Holocaust, were so concerning to staff members that Santos “was encouraged to seek treatment,” according to the report.

The report also found Santos had knowingly filed false or incomplete reports to the Federal Election Commission, used campaign funds for personal purposes, and “engaged in knowing and willful violations” in relation to the Ethics in Government Act.

Here are some of the most shocking revelations detailed in the report:

RedStone: OnlyFans, Hermes, and Sephora

The committee found that Santos, with a company he co-owned, fooled donors into believing they were giving money to an independent expenditure group to support his campaign when it was going toward Santos’s own personal gain.

RedStone Strategies was formed in November 2021 and only had two authorized users, Santos’s single-member LLC, Devolder Organization, and Jayson Benoit & Associates, Inc. Despite Santos being connected to the company, RedStone was “described as an independent expenditure political committee formed ‘exclusively’ to aid Representative Santos’ congressional campaign,” the report says.

Over the campaign, at least $200,000 was transferred from RedStone’s bank accounts to Santos’s personal bank accounts, the report says.

In April 2022, Santos texted one of his state PAC’s staffers requesting a wire transfer of $6,000 to RedStone “ASAP,” stating it was for “ads that we were supposed to pay and I forgot.” After the text message, $6,000 from RISE NY PAC, a state PAC Santos helped manage, was transferred to RedStone before being transferred into Santos’s bank account.

In October 2021, a pesron using a RedStone email account contacted two contributors, asking them for money. Despite not being registered with the FEC, the person claimed RedStone was an “ independent expenditure committee ‘set up to exclusively’ support Representative Santos’ candidacy, and ‘dedicated to helping George Santos win NY-03,’” according to the report.

Santos then contacted one of the contributors directly, sending them a message saying, “‘I’m needing some help on the outside for next week on TV’ ... ‘Can I have the guys from the outside give you a buzz? Can you help?’ ... ‘It’s coming down to the wire and these people are on me,’” the report said.

On Oct. 21, 2022, a contributor sent $25,000 to RedStone, which then transferred the same amount into Santos’s personal account. Then, on Oct. 26, 2022, the other contributor sent a $25,000 wire to RedStone, which turned around and sent $25,000 to another account owned by Santos, the report found.

Once he had amassed the $50,000, Santos used the money to, in part, pay off personal credit card debts, make a $4,127.80 purchase at Hermes, and make smaller purchases at OnlyFans, a site that is often used for pornography and where the people sell content directly to the user, Sephora, meals, and parking.

Earlier this year, Santos claimed on Fox Business that he “just discovered what OnlyFans was about three weeks ago” and that he was “oblivious to the whole concept.” But, according to the Ethics report, this is not true.

Spa treatments and Atlantic City resorts

Throughout his campaign, staffers reportedly raised concerns to Santos about his frequent use of campaign funds for personal travel and meals. Many of these expenses included expenses spent at resorts in Atlantic City as well as separate expenditures toward spa treatments, the report shows.

Investigators identified roughly $2,281 in campaign funds spent on resorts in Atlantic City between July 23 and 24, 2022, as well as another $1,400 spent at Virtual Skin Spa in Jericho, New York, that same month. The report states that Santos spent the money in Atlantic City despite investigators finding no record of political or campaign events occurring at the time.

The report also listed an Airbnb expenditure of $3,332 from July 7, 2022, that was reported to the Federal Election Commission as a “hotel stay” despite Santos’s calendar indicating the then-candidate was “off at [the] Hamptons for the weekend.”

There were also several taxi and hotel charges incurred in Las Vegas throughout December 2021 coinciding with when Santos told his staff he was on his honeymoon and did not have any campaign events on the calendar.

Santos conspired to falsify FEC reports

Santos had responded to concerns of falsified reports to the FEC, claiming he did not have knowledge of the errors and blaming the conduct on his former treasurer.

“The Respondent put his trust in his former treasurer — who has filed FEC reports for multiple members of Congress — to accurately keep records and file reports,” Santos wrote in a letter to the FEC. “This was clearly a mistake. When Respondent learned of these issues, he promptly took steps to rectify these problems.”

Witnesses told investigators that they had repeatedly raised concerns about Santos’s campaign treasurer on “more than five occasions.” However, those concerns were reportedly brushed off, with Santos telling staffers he would “talk to her. That was it.”

The report also cited evidence that Santos “actively” conspired with his treasurer to falsify the campaign reports, noting the New York Republican has still not addressed a number of loan discrepancies or “any of the other systemic errors” listed in the report.

Santos rejected efforts to cooperate with the investigation

Despite claiming that he would cooperate with the committee in an effort to prove his innocence, Santos repeatedly rejected efforts by lawmakers to aid in their investigation, according to the report.

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When the committee opened its investigation earlier this year, members contacted Santos to sign a written statement responding to the allegations, but he declined to do so. The committee later requested Santos “provide all documents and information responsive to its Request for Information,” but the freshman lawmaker failed to do so, according to the report.

Committee members also requested Santos testify or provide a statement under oath, but they said he declined both requests.