Republican congressional candidate Joe Kent was cleared by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) of allegations that he had maintained fake job to support his run for Congress
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GetyPay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.In his brief stint on the national stage, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has spun some of the most preposterous fictions of any U.S. political figure in modern history. So when Santos listed a new treasurer that no one in this insular world of campaign finance had ever heard of—with the innocuous name “Andrew Olson”—some campai
The Federal Election Commission sent a new batch of warnings to U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles that it could audit his campaign finance account or take enforcement action for a spate of alleged violations, including excessive contributions from the House Freedom Caucus s political action committee and possibly illegal corporate donations.