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The House Ethics Committee’s blistering report on Rep. George Santos lays out a number of violations so reckless and overt that they border on absurd. But the report also shows the congressman’s direct involvement in one of the biggest campaign finance grifts in U.S. history—and investigators may have finally answered one of the most tantalizing questions about Santos: Where did his money come from?
It turns out, the answer may have been tucked into a footnote and two appendixes listing Santos’ financial transactions.