George Santos Personal Loan Admission Puts Republicans in Impossible Position
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/george-santos-personal-loan-admission-puts-republicans-in-impossible-position/ar-AA16IXKg?cvid=7f19d04b54014b0298d595168ca3f13dQuestions about the funding of George Santos' congressional bid intensified on Tuesday after the New York Republican filed an amended Federal Election Commission report in which he no longer claimed a $500,000 loan received had come from the "personal funds of the candidate."
Santos was already facing calls to resign from Congress, including from his local Republican Party, after it emerged he had lied about much of his background including attending college, working for top Wall Street firms and his mother being in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
In his updated federal finance report, filed on Tuesday, Santos had unticked the box claiming a $500,000 loan to his campaign came from "personal funds of the candidate," which had previously been ticked. However, he again said the loan came "from the candidate," triggering confusion about the money's origins.
He also said in the amended filings, first reported by the Daily Beast, that a $125,000 loan, which his campaign received on October 26, was not from his "personal funds," but failed to explain where the money had come from.
