🚨BREAKING: George Santos admits to using cash from his firm—#Devolder Organization—to fund his campaign with an allegedly ILLEGAL $700,000 corporate contribution.
It’s legal to use personal cash, but corporate cash is ILLEGAL.🧵
⚠️Santos admits he took money from his #Devolder to bankroll his campaign & the $700,000 in loans “was the money I paid myself through the Devolder Organization”👉🏼ILLEGAL
His financial disclosure shows a $750,000 salary from Devolder + dividends between $1-5 million.🧐
‼️Previous financial disclosures show Santos & his #Devolder firm didn’t have very much money—so what are the origins of his $700,000?
‼️Right-wing judicial activist Leonard Leo (then-EVP of the Federalist Society) helped facilitate the sale of Kellyanne Conway’s polling company in 2017 **while she was advising Trump** on Leo’s handpicked list of SCOTUS candidates.
The sale came at a critical moment for Kellyanne▶️her ownership had come under Congressional scrutiny for potential “conflicts of interest,” likely creating pressure to unload it even though its value was unclear and she was its biggest asset but committed to her WH job.🙄
Leo—via one of his dark money groups—helped finance the transaction between Kellyanne and Creative Response Concepts Inc (CRC) *worth between $1 million and $5 million*.
At the time, CRC was also bringing in millions of dollars from dark money groups to promote Leo’s picks.🤬
🔥DECIMATED: One of #Russia’s most formidable combat units—the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade that protects Russia’s Arctic nuclear submarine arsenal—sent its best fighters & weapons to #Ukraine this year and was DESTROYED.
🚨Jesse Benton—former campaign manager for #MoscowMitch and Ron & @RandPaul—found GUILTY on 6 counts of illegally funneling #Russian money to Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Benton was previously convicted of 4 felonies, but Trump pardoned him.🤬
‼️Jesse Benton—former campaign manager for #MoscowMitch and Ron & @RandPaul—not only ILLEGALLY funneled #Russian cash to Trump’s campaign, he also was #busted ON VIDEO scheming to funnel $2 million of ILLEGAL money from #China into Trump’s SuperPAC.🙄
Benton was previously CONVICTED of #conspiracy and other federal FELONIES for his scheme to bribe then-Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson in exchange for endorsing Ron Paul for president in 2012.
🚨NEW: @JohnsHopkins anesthesiologist Anna Gabrielian and her spouse @USArmy military doctor Maj. Jamie Lee Henry INDICTED for conspiring to share highly-sensitive medical records of military personnel with #Russia.
Gabrielian was "motivated by patriotism toward #Russia" & allegedly said her spouse had info on how the US establishes field hospitals. She told an undercover agent their info needed to be used "for something tactically advantageous…not just check if this person has polyps."🤬
The duo allegedly communicated to someone they believed to be working for the Russian government, who was actually an undercover FBI agent, that they were willing to provide the medical records of military personnel and of certain patients of Johns Hopkins Hospital.🤬
The House Select Subcommittee report on the #Coronavirus Crisis reveals the role that TV personalities played in bringing #hydroxychloroquine to the attention of top WH officials, highlighting an email from Laura Ingraham and *others from Dr. Mehmet Oz*🤬 apnews.com/article/8f136d…
‼️Pence’s Chief of Staff Marc Short testified under #subpoena to a federal grand jury probing the #January6th insurrection—the highest-ranked Trump WH official known to have testified.
In March, DOJ finally expanded its CRIMINAL probe of #January6th to include preparations for Trump’s “Save America” rally that preceded the the Capitol assault…as well as its financing👉🏼Alex Jones and @Publix heiress Julie Jenkins Fanfelli.
Grand jury subpoenas were sent to those who organized Trump's #January6th rally near the WH—prosecutors seek multiple records + documents, including texts, emails & potential communications with others regarding the logistics of the event.