FEC Drops a $68K Hammer on Maxine Waters for Shady Campaign Cash Shenanigans

Progressive firebrand Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) just got her campaign’s knuckles rapped by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to the tune of $68,000 for playing fast and loose with campaign cash during her 2020 re-election romp. 

The FEC caught “Citizens for Waters” with their hands in the cookie jar, accusing them of “failing to accurately report receipts and disbursements” and “knowingly accepting excessive contributions” while tossing out “prohibited cash disbursements” like they were handing out candy at a gay pride parade.

Here’s the dirt: Waters’ campaign vacuumed up $19,000 in illegal contributions from seven big spenders between 2019 and 2020, blowing past the $2,800 individual donation limit like it was a speed bump. On top of that, they made four cash payouts, each over $100, totaling $7,000, that were straight-up against the rules. 

The FEC wasn’t having it, and now the campaign has to send its treasurer to what sounds like the world’s most boring detention: a “commission-sponsored training program for political committees.” Good luck staying awake through that one.

The campaign’s trying to play it cool, saying they’ve lawyered up and put “procedures” in place to keep their disbursements squeaky clean. Their attorney, Leilani Beaver, is out here calling the violations “errors” that were “not willful or purposeful.” Sure, Beav, sounds like someone just tripped over a calculator and accidentally broke federal law.

This ain’t Maxine’s first rodeo in the ethics hot seat. 

From January 2021 to December 2022, her campaign funneled over $1.2 million to her daughter for some sketchy “slate mailer operation” that’s about as common in modern elections as a flip phone. And back in 2010, the House Ethics Committee had her in their sights for allegedly pulling strings to help a bank tied to her husband. That case got tossed, but her chief of staff caught a formal slap on the wrist.

Maybe it's time for real justice and rule of law, as the kids like to say.

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George Santos stepped in dog scam and other piles of lies

George Santos, if that's his real name

Serial liar New York Rep. George Santos (R) stepped down from his committee assignments as an attempt to assuage the public's questioning his legitimacy as a congressman, but things may get a lot worse for him.

The Department of Justice [DoJ] just took over the investigation into the embattled bozo's campaign finance activity recently and it looks as if they will have plenty of damning material to work with. 

First of all, a new report from Mother Jones provides the results of an investigation into myriad campaign contributions that Santos claimed to receive from some of his relatives who live in Queens, New York, totaling more than $45,000. 

Some of Santos' donors are figments of his imagination [aka creation]. They don't exist, but his relatives do, and while they seem to be incredibly generous, one of them who was visited by the media was "dumbfounded" by the notion that they had been a maximum-level donor to Santos' campaign. The family member insisted that they had not given Santos' campaign a single penny, and this is a serious problem for him.

The veracity-impoverished congressman's campaign filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), stated that he pulled in over $45,000 from his Queens relatives. Included in the mix, a mail handler was listed to have given over $4,000, a painter donated the maximum of $5,800, a student also gave $5,800. One of his relatives said they did not make any donation but was listed as having given $5,800.

And while Mother Jones is an obvious left-wing paper, they deserve credit for this kind of reporting. Of course, if Santos had been a Democrat, who knows what, if any, reporting would have taken place.

Santos’ sister is listed as having donated more than $5,000 to his campaign, but when Mother Jones contacted her, she would neither confirm nor deny that she or anyone else in the family had contributed to his campaign. Interestingly, this sister was recently facing possible eviction from her home over failure to pay her rent, and making a donation she was alleged to have made, seems kind of Santos-ish.

Lying about campaign contributions is a criminal offense and could actually get Santos prison time, which would obviously force him out of Congress. If the allegations are proven true, that shows how incompetent a criminal he is.

According to an NBC poll this week, 78% of Santos’ voters want him to resign. “And yet he persists.”

In another unrelated Santos story of an accusation leveled at him by Richard Osthoff, a Navy veteran, in which Santos was alleged to have stolen $3,000 from a GoFundMe account set up to pay for cancer surgery for his service dog, and then the account disappeared. It was supposedly administered by Santos' "Friends of Pets United," a fake charity that did not exist.

The FBI has spoken to Osthoff who claims the lying Long Island Rep. George Santos conned him out of thousands of dollars meant to go toward saving his dying service dog, according to a report.

So time will tell whether this scumbag remains in office. Anyone who would screw a pet owner out of life saving surgery and steal his money, needs to get what he deserves.

I suspect he will be getting a not so friendly knocking on his office door.

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AOC 'fun run' is also a 'for profit run' for her campaign

Alexandria Occasionally-Coherent (Socialist-NY) may be a socialist with your money, but she's a flaming capitalist with her own. Like her rhetoric on her Green New Deal, she wants you and me to go green and socialist, but she still travels around her city in gas guzzlers and hardly takes the convenient subway or bus.

Now the Communist-Socialist-Democrat has another scam: a "fun run" whose participants didn't know they were handing over their money to her campaign, and thought the dough was going to be used for her socialist Green New Deal, perhaps to buy ammunition to be used for killing farting cows.

The Rep[rehensible] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a 5k fun run in Queens Saturday. She billed the event as “a Family Fun Run supporting U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal on the Saturday following Earth Day.” She forgot to mention that it benefits AOC's campaign in order to benefit the GND.

Many of the 400 runners didn’t know their $30 registration fees were going directly into the lawmaker’s campaign coffers, nor were they supposed to know, it seems.

“We’re getting together for our own health, for our planet’s health … and to fight for the Green New Deal together,” the socialist told the participants before they set off. She never mentioned that the real reason for the run was to raise cash for the health of her campaign.

Unwitting campaign contributors whose
parents could go to prison 

Environmentally conscious supporters and others dumb enough to support her election — jogged through Astoria Park alongside the beaming "fat cat" AOC — they believed their money was going to help save the planet rather than her skinny butt in the next election in which she is expected to be "primaried."

“It’s going to help raise awareness and educate people,” a female runner told The New York Post. She obviously has the awareness of an unborn baby about to be killed by an abortion doctor.

“I think it’s really for this particular New Green Deal,” said Brian Schwartz of Long Island. “No question.” Schwartz doesn't even know the correct title of the crappy socialism-based legislation.

“It’s to help the environment. To support the Green New Deal,” another woman said. “It’s a good cause.” Except like Schwartz, she too was fooled.

A vaguely worded notices on AOC’s Facebook page — saying that the run would support “U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & the Green New Deal” — added to the confusion.

But the teeny-weany fine print on a third event-related website revealed the truth.

“Registration fees are contributions to AOC for Congress,” reads the legal disclosure on aoc5k.com, which lists the Federal Election Commission rules that donors must follow to keep it legal at least to a minimal degree. People with actual ethics would have made the purpose of the fee very clear, and really ethical people probably would not have used a fun run for their campaign donations in the first place.

“It was a campaign fundraiser,” Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent said confirmed.

The participating runners paid more than $11,000 all told.

Even kids as young as three became unknowing political donors — ponying up $20 fees to join a kids’ 1k.

But by fudging the fact that those fees were actually campaign contributions, AOC may have enticed constituents into inadvertently breaking federal election laws.

Parents, for example, cannot contribute their own funds in a child’s name.

While AOC raised $726,000 in the first quarter of this year, only 4 percent of the donations came from constituents in her own district.

At Saturday’s event, 198 runners came from the Bronx and from Queens neighborhoods within the 14th congressional district. The other 200 came from elsewhere.

Those contributions will improve her home-grown fundraising share.

Some participants felt tricked, and obviously they were.

“The site says it’s to benefit her environmental plan,” said one supporter who would not give his name. “If it is going to go directly to her campaign they should have said so.”

Another did not mind because that person is a card-carrying idiot who is used to being duped.


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