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George Santos Admits 500K Personal Loan to Campaign Wasn’t ‘Personal’<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images</p> <p>George Santos promised reporters a surprise on Tuesday. When he brought <a href="https://twitter.com/liz_elkind/status/1617887933876572160">coffee and donuts</a> for the journalists staking out his office, it was a letdown. But Santos apparently had another surprise.</p> <p>Late Tuesday afternoon, Santos’ political operation filed a flurry of amended campaign finance reports, telling the feds, among other things, that a $500,000 loan he gave to his campaign didn’t, in fact, come from his personal funds as he’d previously claimed.</p> <p>However, while the new amended filing told us where the funds did <em>not</em> come from, it also raised a new question—where <em>did</em> the money come from?</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-santos-admits-500k-personal-loan-to-campaign-wasnt-personal?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images

George Santos promised reporters a surprise on Tuesday. When he brought coffee and donuts for the journalists staking out his office, it was a letdown. But Santos apparently had another surprise.

Late Tuesday afternoon, Santos’ political operation filed a flurry of amended campaign finance reports, telling the feds, among other things, that a $500,000 loan he gave to his campaign didn’t, in fact, come from his personal funds as he’d previously claimed.

However, while the new amended filing told us where the funds did not come from, it also raised a new question—where did the money come from?

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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