Former Rep. Lee Zeldin introduced on Monday that he’s beginning a brand new political motion committee with out Nancy Marks, the longtime treasurer he shared with disgraced Rep. George Santos.
“We can be saying a brand new federal PAC that’s being stood up proper now using a special treasurer,” Zeldin (R-NY) said on the New York State Conservative Get together Political Motion Convention in Albany, New York.
Marks notified the Federal Election Commission final week that she had resigned from Santos’ (R-NY) marketing campaign and his affiliated political committees. Her announcement got here every week after the Santos marketing campaign named a alternative who claims he didn’t agree to take the job amid the invention of quite a few marketing campaign finance irregularities that seem to have caught the attention of federal investigators.
“The treasurer has one thing like near 200 totally different accounts,” Zeldin mentioned, according to Politico, distancing himself from Marks.
“Our interplay has been by means of Marks’ daughters,” Zeldin added, acknowledging that his kids attend the identical Lengthy Island college as Marks.
Marks has served as Zeldin’s marketing campaign treasurer since his 2010 election to characterize components of Suffolk County within the New York state Senate. She was lately listed because the treasurer for his failed 2022 marketing campaign for governor of New York.
Marks didn’t reply to The Submit’s requests for remark.
Santos’ marketing campaign finance disclosures have come underneath scrutiny since he admitted to The Post in December that he lied about virtually his total resume whereas on the marketing campaign path.
One watchdog group referred to as the marketing campaign’s numerous expenditures recorded as costing $199.99 — a penny beneath the $200 threshold for FEC itemization — “statistically implausible” and an indication of “intentionally falsified” reporting.
A Queens-based relative of the Lengthy Island Republican was “dumbfounded” when informed by Mom Jones final week that they had been listed as having made two $2,900 donations to the Santos marketing campaign, denying that they had made the donations.
Santos’ workforce amended several campaign finance documents final month to point out {that a} $500,000 mortgage he made to his 2022 congressional marketing campaign didn’t come from “private funds of the candidate.” It’s unknown the place these funds he lent his marketing campaign got here from.
The flurry of exercise by the marketing campaign got here as a lawyer for Thomas Datwyler, the person whom the Santos marketing campaign listed as its new treasurer final month, mentioned that Santos’ workforce named him treasurer without his authorization.
The Justice Division has reportedly asked the FEC to not pursue enforcement motion towards Santos because it continues its legal investigation into the disgraced lawmaker.
The steerage despatched by the DOJ’s Public Integrity Part alerts that federal prosecutors could also be centering their probe into Santos on his marketing campaign funds.
