they show that george santos started up an llc, that he sent texts to donors or directs otherwise to solicit donors to give money to that llc, misrepresented what it was for, what type of entity it was. he told people that it was going to be used for his election campaign, and then ultimately much, if not all of the money according to the indictment was spent on personal debts and luxury goods. that is problematic to say the least. you are not able to do it s not only problematic to solicit money under false pretenses but there are also some additional potential campaign finance violations that aren t in the indictment now but could be supplemented in a later filing. let me also ask you about one of the other things that caught a lot of people s attention. that is the fact that he said he had a charitable organization. there s reporting that the irs
election so that is what we don t know. we do know that many top republicans are aghast that anyone would be investigated over a little simple hush money. alleged simple hush money. this was personal money. seven years ago. statute of limitations. that was kevin mccarthy on the third and final day of a republican retreat trying to do his best, nothing to see here, leslie nielsen impersonation. according to the reporting in the wall street journal this money that the former president s then lawyer michael cohen paid to stormy daniels, it wasn t done directly. he used an llc, and the names he used to refer to trump and daniels were david dennison and peggy peterson so kinds of sounds like somebody was trying to hide something. if speaker mccarthy was being sly in his defense of the former president senator rand paul was not. he went full bore at his attack over the manhattan district attorney tweeting, quote, a trump indictment would be a
his company. and that actually does raise questions. about whether the money was his. was it from the corporation? was a corporate money? depending on how that corporation is taxed as an llc. that might be in impermissible corporate contribution. there are questions. experts have raised about. that also about well, what if the money was given to him by other donors. to sort of sidestep the limits on how much he can give to a candidate. we really do not know the answers to those questions. but now it appears that the campaign treasurer might not herself be willing to say if she knows the answer either. okay, what is the campaign let s just establish this, it looks on the fcc imports that needed flowing. now we have an amended filings say that well, it wasn t personal alarms. the question is where did the money come from? i m not a campaign finance lawyer. one thing i do note is that it s flatly illegal to get a donor to give you have a male
allegation that was made by the january 6th committee. tell us about this. reporter: right. so in the summary yesterday, the committee did highlight a lawyer that was paid by donald trump, a pac working with donald trump, the save america trump, who was advising a client to mislead the committee. we now at cnn have been able to confirm the witness they were talking about who was advised to mislead was cassidy hutchison, their start witness, and the lawyer was steffen passinino, who was representing cassidy hutchison, getting payments through an llc that he set up to represent her and other witnesses and so that she, right before she was about to give her public testimony that was very damaging to donald trump, she changed lawyers. there was a big mystery around this. and now there is a he said/she said happening of what happens.
correct. finish yes. and in tennessee i have heard from so many people in our creative community. they re in the music industry, they re authors, they re very concerned about this because they know that they re organized as an llc and a pass-through entity. their gross is much higher than their actual income, what their profit is. they know that these are audits that are going to be coming to them. and, maria, again, they re looking at the politicized nature of some of these agencies. the fbi, the irs, the epa. their thinking, hey they re thinking, hey, wait a minute, i am a law-abiding citizen, i m hard working, i m tax-paying. but they know they re coming at them. now, likewise, with this inflation reduction act people know that these excise taxes on imported oil and gas is going to