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
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/FECDan Cox, the right-winger who lost the Maryland governor’s race last year, has been telling the press that he doesn’t know who was behind a July 3 statement of candidacy in his name. He even said he alerted the Federal Election Commission to the matter.It should be a short investigation: The person was the treasurer Cox had hired to do just that.The Daily Beast has obtained emails and text messages that show Cox planned a congression
Rep. George Santos’ campaign reported a new treasurer plus payments for legal services and outstanding debts at an Italian restaurant in Queens in its year-end report to the FEC.